topic Attaching files to geodatabase in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158234#M8852 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi. I'm following the steps outlined in the "</SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">Using Attachments to manage associated feature content</SPAN><SPAN>" blog (</SPAN><A href="http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisdesktop/archive/2010/12/21/Using-attachments-to-manage-associated-feature-content.aspx">http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisdesktop/archive/2010/12/21/Using-attachments-to-manage-associated-feature-content.aspx</A><SPAN>) to attached jpeg files to a </SPAN><SPAN style="text-decoration:underline;">polygon</SPAN><SPAN> feature class in a file geodatabase. In Catalog, when I right-click the polygon feature class and click 'create attachments' the file geodatabase table and relationship class files are created as the blog said they would be. However, when I bring the feature class into Desktop and start editing it, the attachments link does not appear in its attributes window.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My issue is that I can successfully attach files to my point feature classes, but not the polygon feature classes (located in the same file geodatabase as the point features). I have not tried to attach files to a polyline feature class. Does the 'attachment' feature only work with point feature classes or am I missing something?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:47 GMT JosephAccardi 2011-10-26T15:24:47Z Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158234#M8852 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi. I'm following the steps outlined in the "</SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">Using Attachments to manage associated feature content</SPAN><SPAN>" blog (</SPAN><A href="http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisdesktop/archive/2010/12/21/Using-attachments-to-manage-associated-feature-content.aspx">http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisdesktop/archive/2010/12/21/Using-attachments-to-manage-associated-feature-content.aspx</A><SPAN>) to attached jpeg files to a </SPAN><SPAN style="text-decoration:underline;">polygon</SPAN><SPAN> feature class in a file geodatabase. In Catalog, when I right-click the polygon feature class and click 'create attachments' the file geodatabase table and relationship class files are created as the blog said they would be. However, when I bring the feature class into Desktop and start editing it, the attachments link does not appear in its attributes window.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My issue is that I can successfully attach files to my point feature classes, but not the polygon feature classes (located in the same file geodatabase as the point features). I have not tried to attach files to a polyline feature class. Does the 'attachment' feature only work with point feature classes or am I missing something?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:24:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158234#M8852 JosephAccardi 2011-10-26T15:24:47Z Re: Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158235#M8853 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Joseph,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Adding attachments to polygon feature classes is supported.&nbsp; Try adding the feature class to a blank map document, start an edit session, and then see if you are able to add an attachment through the attribute window.&nbsp; It may be something corrupt with the MXD that is causing the issue.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:35:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158235#M8853 JakeSkinner 2011-10-27T10:35:31Z Re: Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158236#M8854 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thank you so much Jake. That's actually what it was!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Joe</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:24:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158236#M8854 JosephAccardi 2011-10-27T13:24:55Z Re: Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158237#M8855 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I published the MXD to ArcGIS Server and created a web application using the service. I could not see the attached files using Map identify tool in my web map. Please help!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:41:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158237#M8855 HollyLiu 2012-06-01T17:41:09Z Re: Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158238#M8856 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Holly,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How did you create the web map?&nbsp; Did you use the Java/.NET ADF or did you use an API (i.e. Flex, Silverlight, Javascript)?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:20:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158238#M8856 JakeSkinner 2012-06-04T10:20:57Z Re: Attaching files to geodatabase https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158239#M8857 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>.NET</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>out of the box.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:19:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/attaching-files-to-geodatabase/m-p/158239#M8857 HollyLiu 2012-06-04T12:19:36Z