Text Attachment Viewer

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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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Image Attachment Viewer

Use the Image Attachment Viewer for image/* type attachments. A dialog pops up and display the image for you. If the image cannot be displayed for any reason, an error dialog appears instead of the image. Image of the error message displayed when an image cannot be rendered. 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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PDF Attachment Viewer

Use the PDF Attachment Viewer for application/pdf attachments. The viewer enables you to switch between pages, print the document, and more. If the PDF has a table of contents included, it is shown in a separate window to the side, enabling you to browse the outline and skip directly to a particular section. Image of the PDF viewer 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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The Attachment Object

When using these methods, you will likely be working with a special class called Attachment. This class is documented in the User API. A few of the available methods are documented here: Create a new Attachment new Attachment() new Attachment(id, content, type) new Attachment(id, content, charset, type) id The unique ID of the attachment. content The content (String or byte array) to store for the attachment. charset If the content passed in is a string, this is the charset encoding to convert the string to bytes with. If the content is a String and a charset is not used, UTF-8 will be used as the charset. type The MIME type of the attachment. Retrieve Attachment Content Note: When you retrieve an attachment using the Built-In Attachment Functions or The AttachmentUtil Class, you may want to pass in true for the base64Decode argument so that the attachment content is already decoded. getContent() Retrieves the raw byte array content of the attachment. Note that this may be the actual r

Text Attachment Viewer

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