Attachment Table Columns

Column	Description
#	The sequence numbers associated with the attachment(s). This usually starts at 1 and increase for every attachment in the table. In some cases for DICOM messages you may see a single row that has a range of numbers in this column, indicating that multiple attachments have been stored for a single DICOM message.
Type	The type of attachment stored. This will either be a MIME type like "text/plain" or "application/pdf", or "DICOM" in the case of DICOM image attachments.
Attachment Id	The unique ID of the attachment. If multiple attachments have been combined into a single entry you will see a comma-separated list of IDs.

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View Attachments

To view attachment content: Double-click the row in the Attachments table, OR, select the row in the Attachments table, then select the View Attachment task to the left. A confirmation dialog pop up, asking you what type of viewer to use. There are four types of attachment viewers: Text, Image, DICOM, and PDF. The dialog will try to pre-select the viewer for you based on the Type of the attachment. If you need to override that selection and choose a different viewer, you can do that by using the drop-down menu. If you want to bypass this dialog and have the Message Browser always automatically open the viewer based on the Type of the attachment, you can check the Always choose check box. This setting can be reset later in the Administrator Settings Tab. Once you have chosen a viewer, select the OK button to proceed. Parent topic: Attachments Tab

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DICOM Attachment Viewer

Use this for DICOM attachments. A dialog pops up to show the image data for the DICOM message as well as some metadata about it. If the attachment has multiple image slices, use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom to switch between them. Parent topic: Attachments Tab

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Attachments Tab

If a message has attachments associated with it, a separate Attachments tab is visible when selecting any of the connector message rows within the message in the Metadata Table. Attachment Table Columns View Attachments Text Attachment Viewer Image Attachment Viewer DICOM Attachment Viewer PDF Attachment Viewer Use the PDF Attachment viewer to view PDF message attachments. Parent topic: Message Browser View

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Attachment MIME Types

As explained in the Attachments Tab section, there are four types of attachment viewers in the Message Browser: Text, Image, DICOM, and PDF. The type s of attachment corresponding with these viewers are: text/*: Plain textual data. image/*: Image data (JPGs, PNGs, etc.). DICOM: A special (not strictly MIME) type reserved for DICOM attachment data. application/pdf: PDF data. The * is a wildcard, signifying that anything can be present there. For example, if you are reading in RTF data, the appropriate MIME type would be text/rtf, which matches the text/* type when the message browser is searching for an attachment viewer. Note that when extracting / creating attachments, you can use any type you want. It has no effect on how the data is stored or reattached (except for the DICOM special case), only how it is displayed in the message browser. Parent topic: Attachment Handlers

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Select Attachments for Export

If you have set the export type to Section Level or Manual Data Selection, you can use the Attachments pane to choose which attachments to include. For other export types, attachments are not included. Attachments Pane For image attachments, the icon shown may be a thumbnail of the actual image. However, if the original image is oversized, a generic icon is shown instead. In System Administrator, you can use the View > Universal Preferences > Image Binary Limit (in Bytes) option to specify the maximum size image for which a thumbnail is generated. To choose which attachments to include, select or clear the check box next to the description of each attachment.Warning messages appear if you attempt to select more than the recommended number or the maximum number of attachments. If you have already selected the maximum number of attachments, you are not allowed to select any more until you have deselected another attachment. The recommended and maximum limits for attachments are configure

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Attachment Handlers

An Attachment Handler allows you to extract pieces of any incoming message and store them separately. As a message processes through a channel, multiple copies of it will be held in memory at once (for the raw / transformed / encoded versions of a message, etc.). Attachments are stored only once, so by using them you can greatly reduce your channels' memory footprint. These are configured in the Channel Properties section of the Summary Tab within the Edit Channel View. Note: See Attachment JavaScript Functions for more information. By default the attachment handler is set to None, meaning no attachments will be extracted. To extract attachments choose an attachment handler type from the drop-down menu, and select the Properties button to configure the handler. Note: If Store Attachments next to the Attachment menu is unchecked, then attachments will be extracted from the incoming message data, but not actually stored anywhere. Extraction Reattachment Expanded Replacement Tokens Attach

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