topic Attachments url in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attachments-url/m-p/45214#M2541 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This may be more of a Flex Viewer question but I thought I'd start here.&nbsp; I have a SDE feature class where I am adding attachments.&nbsp; First of all, the process is very slow and tedious.&nbsp; Second, the relate is done by Attachment ID and Related Object ID.&nbsp; Neither of these make any sense to the end user.&nbsp; For instance when I open the attachment from my Flex Viewer web app the ending of the url is MapServer/6/4474/attachments/3315&nbsp; where 4474 is the Related Object ID and 3315 is the Attachment ID.&nbsp; This is troublesome as there are multiple attachments for each object and with only the ID's this is troublesome.&nbsp; My other question is are the BLOBs just binary files that cannot be accessed externally without exporting them?&nbsp; In other words, there is no file path for the attachments only the file name?&nbsp; So I can modify the attachment all I want on the file system and it will not change what is "attached" to the feature class?&nbsp; The documentation on this is a little sparse.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:44:14 GMT JoshWhite 2014-03-27T18:44:14Z Attachments url https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attachments-url/m-p/45214#M2541 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>This may be more of a Flex Viewer question but I thought I'd start here.&nbsp; I have a SDE feature class where I am adding attachments.&nbsp; First of all, the process is very slow and tedious.&nbsp; Second, the relate is done by Attachment ID and Related Object ID.&nbsp; Neither of these make any sense to the end user.&nbsp; For instance when I open the attachment from my Flex Viewer web app the ending of the url is MapServer/6/4474/attachments/3315&nbsp; where 4474 is the Related Object ID and 3315 is the Attachment ID.&nbsp; This is troublesome as there are multiple attachments for each object and with only the ID's this is troublesome.&nbsp; My other question is are the BLOBs just binary files that cannot be accessed externally without exporting them?&nbsp; In other words, there is no file path for the attachments only the file name?&nbsp; So I can modify the attachment all I want on the file system and it will not change what is "attached" to the feature class?&nbsp; The documentation on this is a little sparse.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:44:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attachments-url/m-p/45214#M2541 JoshWhite 2014-03-27T18:44:14Z