In “file attachments” various external documents for an order can be recorded. This can be different documents and media data, e.g. PDF-catalogs, video company presentations, e-mails, scanned documents and web addresses.

 

In “file attachments” the following additional functions are available:

	Add a new file attachment
	Delete marked file attachment
	Modify the description text of the marked file
	Displays the location of the marked file attachment
Show from linked projects	Also shows in the list the file attachments that are stored in projects linked via the project history. For these attachments, the additional column Document Origin is displayed, which contains the document name and document number of the linked project.

A new file attachment can be added via the button or through drag&drop.

A dialog opens for selecting an external file attachment or an external URL.

In the dialog, the file attachment can be assigned to a category and a description can be stored.

After confirming the dialog, another dialog for entering the URL opens for an external URL and the standard Windows dialog for opening a file appears for an external file attachment.

 

In the list view, all attachments available for a project are displayed. A symbol in the first column marks the type of file attachment. The entries can be sorted through a click on the designations of the columns.

 

File attachments of a purchase order

 

An already created file attachment is opened by double-clicking on its file name / reference.

A simple click on a file attachment of the type Image shows a preview of the image below the file attachment list.

 

In the column “Path” the symbol  indicates that the file attachment is available at the stored path. The symbol  shows, that the file attachment or the path is not available.

A little database symbol shows that the information is directly stored in the database.