Feature Attachment, can multiple features share the same attachment file?

YongzhiYu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:22:12 GMT

Hi All:

I am in AGS 10, and I am implementing a project that need to attach some pdf files to multiple parcel features. Here is my quesion:
Can multiple features share the same attachment file? In other word, can I attach one file to multiple features at one time?

An example is if I have one pdf file that I want to associate with 100 parcels, is there a way to attach the file to these 100 parcels at one time, so all the parcels reference the same attachment record in the parcel_ATTACH table? It just does not make sense if I have to attach the same file 100 times to each pacrel and create 100 records in the parcel_ATTACH table.

In addition to my above question, can features from different feature class share the same attachment? I guess the answer would be no, since each feature class will have its own attachment table in the SDE database.

Many thanks.

Yongzhi

Re: Feature Attachment, can multiple features share the same attachment file?

JenniferNery — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:10:27 GMT

The REST API only supports add attachment at the feature level: http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/SDK/REST/fsaddattachment.html. You can call any of these AddAttachment method in code-behind: http://help.arcgis.com/en/webapi/silverlight/apiref/ESRI.ArcGIS.Client~ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.FeatureLayer~AddAttachment.html.

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