

Attachments can be filtered in the Job Attachments pane using the Search box. Drag Add Attachment from the Step Library to a connection arrow of a step on the workflow canvas. This option is useful when referencing external information such as online software help.Īttachments can be added from the Job tab or Job Attachments pane and managed from the Job Attachments pane. Complete these steps to configure the Add Attachment step: Create or edit a workflow diagram to access the Step Library panel. This saves disk space, but to be effective the file must be stored in a location that is easily accessible or on a shared file system. However, storing files directly in the database can increase the database size pretty quickly, and it is advised that you first contact your database administrator to find out the file size limit (maxblobsize) for your database to see if this is the right option for your organization. This is a versatile option if you want a file to be accessible from all locations via Workflow Manager (Classic).


Now you have a copy of your data and attachments to use locally, or for backup purposes. Open(outFolder + os.sep + fileName, 'wb').write(binaryRep.tobytes()) OutFolder = r"C:\TestProject\Attachments\files"

Tbl = r"C:\TestProject\Attachments\test.gdb\yourFCname_ATTACH" (The arcpy.da module is only available in v10.1 and 10.2!)ĭisclaimer: The below script is provided as-is and Esri UK accepts no responsibility of issues that arise from incorrect usage of this code. You need to use the arcpy.da (data access) module to identify and iterate through the attachments table using a Search Cursor and save the blob objects, that store the images, into physical files. gdb extension to the folder nameĪt the moment, there is no out-of the box tool in ArcGIS Desktop to extract attachments however, you can perform this function through the use of a python script.
