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  1. Preface
  2. Welcome to Informatica Process Developer
  3. Using Guide Developer for the First Time
  4. Getting Started with Informatica Process Developer
  5. About Interfaces Service References and Local WSDL
  6. Planning Your BPEL Process
  7. Participants
  8. Implementing a BPMN Task or Event in BPEL
  9. Implementing a BPMN Gateway or Control Flow
  10. Using Variables
  11. Attachments
  12. Using Links
  13. Data Manipulation
  14. Compensation
  15. Correlation
  16. What is Correlation
  17. What is a Correlation Set
  18. Creating Message Properties and Property Aliases
  19. Adding a Correlation Set
  20. Deleting a Correlation Set
  21. Adding Correlations to an Activity
  22. Rules for Declaring and Using Correlation Sets
  23. Correlation Sets and Engine-Managed Correlation
  24. Event Handling
  25. Fault Handling
  26. Simulating and Debugging
  27. Deploying Your Processes
  28. BPEL Unit Testing
  29. Creating POJO and XQuery Custom Functions
  30. Custom Service Interactions
  31. Process Exception Management
  32. Creating Reports for Process Server and Central
  33. Business Event Processing
  34. Process Central Forms and Configuration
  35. Building a Process with a System Service
  36. Human Tasks
  37. BPEL Faults and Reports

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Sending and Receiving Attachments

Sending and Receiving Attachments

An attachment is data that is relevant to a task but is not defined as one of the input or output parts. This data can be of any type. For example, you can attach a picture, document, spreadsheet, or other file type to a variable in a BPEL process. The people activity can receive attachments from the BPEL process. If attachments exist, the people activity can then make them part of the task, and the attachments are displayed in users’ task client application.
Users can download and update the original attachments, or they can remove or add new attachments when they complete the task. When the people activity completes, it can copy all, none, or new attachments returned with the task to another process variable. If no attachments exist, the setting is ignored.
Using the _peopleActivityAttachments Variable to Copy Attachments
When you add a people activity to the process, a special variable is added to the Process Variables view for holding attachments.
For data attachments, you can create an assign activity with a copy operation that uses an attachment function to copy attachments from or to
_peopleActivityAttachments
. The attachment functions are listed in the Functions panel of the
Query Builder
, as shown in the illustration:
Setting the Attachment Propagation Property
In a people activity, on the All tab of the Properties view, you can make selections for copying attachments from the process to the people activity and from the people activity to the process:
  • From Process
    . Select
    All
    or
    None
    to indicate whether to copy attachments to the
    _peopleActivityAttachments
    . The default is
    All.
  • To Process
    . Select
    All
    ,
    None
    , or
    New Only
    (but not those that were modified) to indicate which attachments to copy to a process variable from
    _peopleActivityAttachments
    . The default is
    New Only
    .

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