Creating attachments using REST

[steveh (Steve Hare)]

We have an app that our warehouse team use to take pictures and attach them to packs / jobs / sales orders. It’s actually a web app developed in house and outputs the image and CSV file to a folder where a PowerShell Script uses DMT to import / create the attachment record. Whilst this works quite well it occurs to me that, as this is a web based app, it may be better to use a REST call to insert the attachments.

I am a total newbie to REST, I just about get that it talks to EPICOR via “web calls” but it seems like it may be a better approach.

To that end, has anyone used the REST API to add attachments? Does anyone got any examples of how it works? I got as far as finding the API Call, but I have no idea what to put into the Inputs.

Many thanks for any help / guidance

[Jeff_Owens]

Are you trying to link to a file source (eg. file on a network share somewhere) or upload into the database? Also, are you cloud or local?

[Mark_Wonsil]

Use the Trace Luke.

Trace Helper Utility for Epicor ERP 10

So we’ve been working on a little utility to help parse the Epicor Trace Files and make development a little easer. Here is a walk through [Epicor Trace Parser / Differ] Below is some more info on how to use it. The most important but is how you setup your Trace. Your trace should be setup as shown [image] I know we (most of us) normally say “Track Changes Only” but this is big bold lie, it shows us what has changed in the data-set (even stuff we haven’t manually changed). This t…

[steveh (Steve Hare)]

Always my first port of call, but it doesn’t seem obvious to me how to correlate the trace log inputs to the example REST Inputs?

[Olga (Olga Klimova)]

You need to switch to custom method list in the REST help, see the link in top right corner.

[Olga (Olga Klimova)]

Basically you upload file using that UploadFile method, then you can use POST /Attachements to add /update record in XFileAttach/XFileRef tables, where reference to the uploaded file is stored.