Send With Map of Attachments & Map Variable

Question

I'm trying to send multiple attachments using "Send With Map of Attachments" Service.  I've setup a map variable (attachments_map) of sub-type string to hold the path and file name for each file (represented as <full_path>/<file_name>.pdf).<br /><br />What I'm confused about is that I don't understand the keys of the map given the following statement in the help file about this specific Email service: "The keys for the map are the attachment file names. The file names should include the file name extension if the email receiver needs to associate the file with software to open it."<br /><br />I have two questions:<br /><br />1)  What are the keys for the map needed for the "Send With Map of Attachments" service for Attachments and what is the XPath representation to send this data to the service (e.g., /process_data/attachment_map/@file[0] or /process_data/attachment_map/@file[<file_name>] or what) ?  I don't know what the required XML structure looks like.  As you can tell, I've not used a map variable before either!  :)<br /><br />2)  As in the "Send With Document" service, is there a way to define the file name saved in the e-mail that the receiver sees?<br /><br />Example:<br />Receiver sees this in e-mail:  "File.pdf"<br />But the path and file are actually this:  T:/Files/XXXX_File.pdf<br /><br />Thanks for your help in advance!

Answer 1

FINALLY figured this out! I configured a map variable of sub-type document called "attachment_map". I have the files that are to be attached stored in a database, and I used the component Query for Multiple Rows to get the attachment data into an XML document. I then built an iterative process loop to parse the XML (using the NodeSet functions count() and position() to control this) loading the file name for each file (the map key) into the process variable "attachment_file_name" and the full file path and name into another variable "attachment_file_full_path". The process loads the documents (one at a time) into the map variable using the Foundation file utility Read Document - the input variable is /process_data/@attachment_file_full_path and the output variable is /process_data/attachment_map/[@id=/process_data/@attachment_file_name]. After the map is loaded with all the attachments I wanted, I used the Send With Map of Attachments component with /process_data/attachment_map/ as my Attachments variable. As long as the file names are unique, they all came through.