Attaching files to geodatabase

[JosephAccardi]

Hi. I'm following the steps outlined in the "Using Attachments to manage associated feature content" blog (http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/arcgisdesktop/archive/2010/12/21/Using-attachments-to-manage-associa...) to attached jpeg files to a polygon 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.

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?

Thanks

[JakeSkinner]

Hi Joseph,

Adding attachments to polygon feature classes is supported.  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.  It may be something corrupt with the MXD that is causing the issue.

[JosephAccardi]

Thank you so much Jake. That's actually what it was!

Thanks,
Joe

[HollyLiu]

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!

[JakeSkinner]

Hi Holly,

How did you create the web map?  Did you use the Java/.NET ADF or did you use an API (i.e. Flex, Silverlight, Javascript)?

[HollyLiu]

.NET
out of the box.