Attachments in UI extensions and Automation
It is now possible to ask a user to supply an attachment, using a custom field. It is also possible to use automation rules to access these attachments and add them to a note. To make this possible, a new custom field type ‘Attachments’ has been created.
The Minimum and Maximum fields appear when the Multiple values box is ticked. If it is not ticked, only one attachment may be uploaded. Let us look at an example of a use case for this enhancement.
Imagine that our fictional Widget organization is bringing a new product to the market, named ‘Pastel’. A request template is used to request the registration of the new product. The requester should include two types of documents to this request: the logos (or avatars) for the new product and the design documents. In one of the workflow tasks, all these attachments must be added to a note field.
The Snippet that creates this UI extension would look like this:
<div class="row vertical">
<label for="product_avatars" title="Product Logo">Product Logos</label>
<div id="product_avatars" data-type="attachment" class="required" data-multiple></div>
</div>
<div class="row vertical">
<label for="product_designs" title="Product designs">Product designs</label>
<div id="product_designs" data-type="attachment" class="required" data-multiple></div>
</div>The request with this UI extension (and several attachments already linked) could look like this:
In the automation rule, the attachments are retrieved from the 2 custom fields and added to a note:
This automation rule adds a note with all uploaded attachments to the ‘Register new Widget product in SAP’.
