https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653293#M99215 <P>What you're describing sounds like the only way I can think of to use the UI to browse the photos.&nbsp; It's clunky, but I think since Pro is so centrally built around a&nbsp;<EM>spatial</EM> database system, all the non-spatial stuff has always felt kinda secondary to me, in terms of UX &amp; functionality.</P><P>I suppose the broader answer, though, would depend on what your use case is, here.&nbsp; For example, we have photos attached to non-spatial tables in one of our field efforts, but that's because those tables are then related to spatial data.&nbsp; So I can view the photos from the top-level spatial feature and just navigate down the rabbit hole to see the photos.</P><P>If you're looking at attachments that have no connection to a spatial feature, then there's a fair argument for viewing them outside of Arc.&nbsp; Unless it was a live-updating service of some kind, I'd be tempted to periodically download the attachments and view them in my OS' native file system.&nbsp; As of Pro 3.3, there's now a built-in tool for extracting attachments, but even if I weren't still on 3.1, there's a strong chance I'd build my own tool in a case like this, so the file architecture maintains the hierarchy that I would've wanted from the table, initially.</P> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:29:54 GMT MErikReedAugusta 2025-09-25T18:29:54Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653268#M99209 <P>I feel like this should be easy and yet I'm drawing a serious blank.</P><P>How do you easily view the attachments of a non-spatial table? Best I can come up with is browse through attribute table and check the attachments group on the attribute pane, but that isn't great.</P><P>Thanks!</P> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:34:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653268#M99209 AlfredBaldenweck 2025-09-25T17:34:18Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653293#M99215 <P>What you're describing sounds like the only way I can think of to use the UI to browse the photos.&nbsp; It's clunky, but I think since Pro is so centrally built around a&nbsp;<EM>spatial</EM> database system, all the non-spatial stuff has always felt kinda secondary to me, in terms of UX &amp; functionality.</P><P>I suppose the broader answer, though, would depend on what your use case is, here.&nbsp; For example, we have photos attached to non-spatial tables in one of our field efforts, but that's because those tables are then related to spatial data.&nbsp; So I can view the photos from the top-level spatial feature and just navigate down the rabbit hole to see the photos.</P><P>If you're looking at attachments that have no connection to a spatial feature, then there's a fair argument for viewing them outside of Arc.&nbsp; Unless it was a live-updating service of some kind, I'd be tempted to periodically download the attachments and view them in my OS' native file system.&nbsp; As of Pro 3.3, there's now a built-in tool for extracting attachments, but even if I weren't still on 3.1, there's a strong chance I'd build my own tool in a case like this, so the file architecture maintains the hierarchy that I would've wanted from the table, initially.</P> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:29:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653293#M99215 MErikReedAugusta 2025-09-25T18:29:54Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653295#M99216 <P>I was hoping to store some text files in them (it makes sense in context) and then pull them up as necessary. The thing is the pulling them up part.</P> Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:33:11 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/view-nonspatial-table-s-attachments/m-p/1653295#M99216 AlfredBaldenweck 2025-09-25T18:33:11Z