Xpages send attachment from a document to another

Question

I have a document which is comming for a scanner. The scanner sends an email to my database and from a view I can access that document and see the attachment and the subject.

Is there a way I can use the attachment and to put it in another document? I managed to send the subject rich text using a sessionScope, but it is not working with the attachements.

In the destination document I have a fileDownloader.

Which would be the best way to do this?

How do you create the destination document? Is it out of the source document? — poisonedYouth
Do you want to open the destination document or is it just for saving the data? — poisonedYouth
Why don't you use the "copyAllItems" method to duplicate your source document and then delete all unnecessary items? — poisonedYouth

Knut Herrmann Knut Herrmann · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-05T06:58:02

Use NotesRichTextItem's appendRTItem() method:

Read the original Body item into a NotesRichTextItem
create a new NotesRichTextItem in your new document
append the original NotesRichTextItem to your new created

This copies also all attachments included in RichText.

Example:

  var docOrig:NotesDocument = ...;
  var docNew:NotesDocument = database.createDocument();
  docNew.replaceItemValue("Form", "Test");
  var bodyOrig:NotesRichTextItem = docOrig.getFirstItem("Body");
  var bodyNew:NotesRichTextItem = docNew.createRichTextItem("Body");
  bodyNew.appendRTItem(bodyOrig);
  docNew.save();

Example 2:

Same code embedded in a button of an XPage with data source "document1". The button

creates a new document with form "Test",
copies RichText item "Body" with all attachments from current document "document1" to the new document and
opens an XPage "Test.xsp" for the new created document

<xp:button
    value="Create and open new document with a copy of current document's item Body"
    id="button1">
    <xp:eventHandler
        event="onclick"
        submit="true"
        refreshMode="complete">
        <xp:this.action>
            <xp:openPage
                name="Test.xsp"
                target="editDocument">
                <xp:this.documentId><![CDATA[#{javascript:
                    var docOrig:NotesDocument = document1.getDocument();
                    var docNew:NotesDocument = database.createDocument();
                    docNew.replaceItemValue("Form", "Test");
                    var bodyOrig:NotesRichTextItem = docOrig.getFirstItem("Body");
                    var bodyNew:NotesRichTextItem = docNew.createRichTextItem("Body");
                    bodyNew.appendRTItem(bodyOrig);
                    docNew.save();
                    return docNew.getUniversalID();}]]></xp:this.documentId>
            </xp:openPage>
        </xp:this.action>
    </xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>

Precondition for both examples: the attachments have to be in current document's item "Body".

Xpages send attachment from a document to another

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