File Attachment - solution found !!!

Question

For those that have been trying to use the file upload control that comes with the Business Process Editor, the solution below will allow you to get hold of the attached file attachment and encode the data in base64. There have been many questions on this but here is the solution from Sun Support and hope that this will help someone too:
<Field name='FileUpper-ad'>
<Display class='FileUpload'>
<Property name='title' value='JPEG Photo'/>
</Display>
</Field>
<Field name='accounts[MyLDAP].attachment'>
<Expansion>
<block>
<cond>
<isnull>
<ref>FileUpper-ad</ref>
</isnull>
<ref>accounts[MyLDAP].attachment</ref>
<new class='com.waveset.util.Binary'>
<ref>FileUpper-ad</ref>
</new>
</cond>
</block>
</Expansion>
</Field>
Thank you Sun support.

Answer 1

The fileupload XPress control isnt so hard to understand. Difficult to use perhaps but not so ununderstandable.
From my experiments with a Form accessed by a browser started on a PC which is connecting to an IDM server running on a Solaris machine, the Upload control allows you to search for files on your PC (or on network disks accessible from the PC) and "upload" it. What I have seen is this control putting the uploaded file somewhere on the IDM server and naming it somehow. The trick is to store where IDM puts this uploaded copy and to figure out its name... so that in the future you can grab the file off the IDM server and attach it to an Email.... And of course unlink the uploaded file when you have no further use for it.
As you say there has been some discussion of this in the Sun IDM FAQ but nowhere is there a start to finish cookbook.
GF