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~Naomi Dwojumilyakoi
Jul 7, 2013, 2:56 PM
110 Posts
topic has been resolvedResolved

XPINC launch an attachment instead of downloading it

  • Category: Server Side JavaScript
  • Platform: Windows
  • Release: 9.0
  • Role: Developer
  • Tags: xpinc client,attachment,file download
  • Replies: 2

Is there a way to launch (open without saving) an attachment through XPINC? Something like the popup in web browser that ask you whether to open the attachment using a program or just save it first. Or maybe there's some setting in the notes client that I've yet to found that will launch an attachment?

~Hal Desvelutexli
Jul 8, 2013, 9:10 PM
17 Posts
open attachments in xpinc

I had the same requirements in an application (nobody wants to download a simple PDF, search it again in the file browser and open it from there)

I used the form launch-property "launch first attachment" .. If there are 2 or more Attachments, create temporary documents (in a separate database), and remove them again scheduled (e.g. nightly..). There is also another approach: http://hasselba.ch/blog/?p=1045

~Naomi Dwojumilyakoi
Aug 18, 2013, 3:19 PM
110 Posts
Still not an ideal solution but worked on my platform

I found the old ShellExec.lss lotusscript library somewhere. What I did is get the attachment as NotesEmbeddedObject, extract it to the filesystem (C:\Temp for example), pass the file path/name using the agent.runWithDocumentContext() method to the ShellExec.lss to launch it.

At least it worked on my platform (Win7x64). I'm 100% sure it won't work on others though.


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