Attachments

Attachments are documents that reside outside of an OpenSystems application, such as OpenMETRIC, but that relate to specific records within the application.  This feature provides an easy way to access all the on-line information about a given record.  (We recommended that these documents be stored in \Omet\Data\Attachments whenever possible.)

You will click the Attachments button to access the attached documents or to add to, modify, view or delete from the list of attachments for this record.  When you click the Attachments button, the first thing you will see is a list of all documents that have already been specified as attachments to the record on the main window.

To access an attached document, click the line containing the name of the attachment and then click the Launch button.  The document will be displayed by the program which was specified for the document, such as MS Word.

To update the list of attachments or modify information about a specific attachment, use the Add/Edit button.  If you want to add an attachment to the list, click Add/Edit.  If you want to modify or view information about an attachment, click the line and then click Add/Edit.  If you want to delete an attachment from the list, click the line and then click Add/Edit.  The document itself will NOT be deleted; the name of the document will simply be removed from this list.  Click Export to export this list.  Click Cancel or OK when you are through and want to return to the main window.

Click New|Clear to add an attachment to the list.  Specify the path and name of the file you wish to attach.  This file should already exist and be accessible from your system.  You may use the Field Finder button to the right of the File field to find your file or to fetch a default path.  Fill in the description of the attachment.  You may use the Field Finder button to the right of the Open With field to bring up a list of programs that may be invoked to access the document.  Select one.  Click New|Add.

Click Change|Open to change the description of the attachment or to change the name or path of the system program that will be invoked.  Enter your data and click Change|Update.

Click Delete|Delete to delete this attachment from this list.  To repeat, the actual document will not be deleted.

After adding or changing the attachment information, you may click Launch to invoke the program that will display the attachment.

Click Cancel to leave this window and return to the attachments list.