attached to a field or to the document.

If they are attached to the document they will not be surfaced in the XPage as they will need to be "bound" to a field.

If they are attached to a rich text field then ensure that the correct RTF field is bound to the download control. (not always the "body" field)

Thanks, Paul. In the original documents created from the Notes form, the attachments are bound to a RTF. On the Xpage, the File Download control is also bound - using the data choice under the properties eclipse view - to this field.  The attachments are still not showing up. 

It's as if the download control is unable to see any attachments. We clicked the box "hide if no attachments" (under the properties eclipse view, file download tab, in the options area). On a document with attachments, the download control was hidden.

Thanks again for your help!

I've really never used the built in file upload or download control in xpages.

when I had an app that I need to just show the attachments and allow for download / view, I built links to point to the attachments.  This post by Stephan was VERY helpful:  http://www.wissel.net/blog/d6plinks/SHWL-86QKNM

Recently I needed to allow for uploading attachments.  Again - I didn't want to use the built in stuff so I came up with what I'm calling "fileVault".  I have a demo of what it looks like here:  http://notesin9.com/index.php/2014/08/01/notesin9-150-announcing-filevault-for-xpages/

There are no build instructions yet...  I'm presenting it in a couple weeks and then the code and build info will hit NotesIn9.  So while that can't help you now maybe it can as soon as I can get it all posted.

Sorry I couldn't give better help to your specific issue.

Dave

Thanks, David. Appreciate the response.  The teaser video worked; I am quite impressed and can't wait to see more of the fileVault feature.  It looks to be a viable solution to our problem.

Thanks, everyone, for the help so far. While David's fileVault is impressive, we are in need of a more immediate solution. Per Stephan’s post we are attempting to simply view an attachment using a URL. We are able to see the attachment in the document properties in the Notes client view under $FILE.  

Below is the actual URL and the resulting error.  Is the URL correctly formatted?

URL:

http://wc_notes/COUNTY/Budget.nsf/xsp/.ibmmodres/domino/OpenAttachment/Budget.nsf/1a43cc7d5b977b3e88257d2b0073640f/79e0c331fd58db5688257d2b006fb9cb/$FILE/FW%20Ceiling%20tile%20in%20CAO%20office.htm?open

Result:

404

Cannot load unregistered resource /domino/OpenAttachment/Budget.nsf/1a43cc7d5b977b3e88257d2b0073640f/79e0c331fd58db5688257d2b006fb9cb/$FILE/FW Ceiling tile in CAO office.htm

I'm not exactly sure what's up with that URL...  I believe when trying to do this attachment to URL thing it's not really XPages at all.  It's a "classic domino" URL.

When I look at a URL that I have for an attachment via my fileVault thing it looks like this:

https://server.domain.com/folder%5Cdbname.nsf/0/08FE9BBD9066DB7985257CFB0053DE80/%24File/P8280565.JPG

That's what I end up computing that seems to work.  Hopefully this helps you.  

Please let me know of your progress here.

Dave

NotesIn9

Thanks for all of the help, everyone.  Taking inspiration from David, we created a field to compute the URL of the attachment. That field was then displayed on the Xpage.

The formula language is as follows:

The result is a series of links, or, in the event of no attachments, a message stating "attachments fail to exist."

Thanks again.