Business Process Portal enables you to attach, update, and remove documents associated with entities such as tasks. For instance, you can use this feature to circulate a resume as a part of a hiring review process, or to circulate one or more functional specifications associated with a design approval process.
The ability to attach documents is not part of every task. The application must be designed to enable this feature, that is, it must employ Document dataslots for working with attachments.
Note: The ability to attach documents is not part of every task. The application must be designed to enable this feature.
Attachment options
The Business Process Server allows you to attach documents using the JavaScript interface. Your ability to attach, update, and remove documents depends on the type of workstep that stores the document.
The possible cases are summarized in the following table:
Table 6. Attachment Update Options
If the attachment is . . .
You can . . .
Read-only
View attached documents, but you cannot attach new documents, nor can you delete or update existing attached documents. You can, however, save a copy on your computer.
Read/write
Attach, remove, and update documents.
Whether an attached document is in read-only or read/write mode, depends upon the settings specified while defining the document dataslot. For more information, see the Application Developer’s Guide.
Supported file types
You may attach any kind of file (.doc, .xls, .pdf, .gif, .html) as long as the file is located in your computer. When you open an attachment, BPM Portal lets the browser identify the associated application.
Note: The default setting for document attachment size is 5 MB. In the OEBPS_HOME\conf\bpmportal.conf file, you can increase the default document attachment size to 300 MB..
