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Attaching Documents

lbds — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:31:23 GMT

I am attempting to call the rest-api to attach a text document to a workflow task. Currently, I am allowing the user to select a file to upload at which point I attempt to call the attachments rest-api for that task. My question is how I get the file itself loaded into ACT_GE_BYTEARRAY (I believe

Re: Attaching Documents

trademak — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:47:07 GMT

You can use the TaskService createAttachment method for that.

Best regards,

Re: Attaching Documents

frederikherema1 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:04:06 GMT

To get the content back out, you can use taskService.getAttachmentContent(..). In REST, you can use:


GET runtime/tasks/{taskId}/attachment/{attachmentId}/content

It will be streamed back in the mime-type it was uploaded with…

Re: Attaching Documents

lbds — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:04:29 GMT

Is there a way to call the rest-api to attach the documents or do I have to use the use the TaskService createAttachment method?

Thanks!

Re: Attaching Documents

frederikherema1 — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:11:57 GMT

Please take a look at the userguide in the REST-section. Under the Tasks subsection, you can find a link to the docs for adding an attachment to a task…