Re: Attachments

We opted to not use/allow attachments out of concerns of users going
nuts attaching everything!

But very soon we will be looking at how to best link the item's 
manufacturing
and sales drawing as we retire our IBM Visual Info product.  We'll have 
about
3000 scanned vellums to tie to the item master.  Although the drawings are
old, they are still subject to revision control.  And our method must be 
capable
of linking our more dynamic solidworks CAD drawings.  I'm not worried
about networks shares or security, simply the robustness and core 
integrity
of what we plan to do.  After all it has to appeal to the users more than 
the old
way.

We've had some thoughts on using the attachment concept, but maintaining
it externally, simply having the feature for user's retrieval purposes in 
a read-
only fashion.  But since we have more than one type of drawing (sales, 
mfg,
inspection, etc.)  to link, we made need something more structured.


It would also be nice to come up with a storage model that would allow
sales to 'attach' all their related data and eliminate paper files.  But 
that's
a can of worms I'm not ready for.

Regards .......james






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We are interested in attaching item pictures to our item revisions in
Browser.

Anyone using Attachments in Browser?  Have you run into any problems? 
Where
did you decide to store the attachments and why?  Security issues?

Any feedback is appreciated!

Lisa A. Thomas
Hayssen
Packaging Technologies
lisa.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx
864-486-4449 


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