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dkccraig Uploading Documents
Hi all,
I am trying to upload a file as a Document with apex.
Let's say I have a 3 second video clip on my hard drive at "/Users/MyUserName/Desktop/test.avi" and I want to upload this file as a Document. I have the following code to do so:
Document d = new Document;
d.Name = 'Test Video';
d.Body = Blob.valueOf('/Users/MyUserName/Desktop/Test.avi');
d.FolderID = ...; //A valid folder id
insert d;
Unfortunately it just sets the body to the blob "/Users/MyUserName/Desktop/test.avi" instead of uploading the file at that path. What am I doing wrong?
You seem to be forgetting that apex runs server side, and therefore can't magically grab random content from your local desktop.
The easiest (programatic) way to create documents from a client machine, is via the regular web services API, using the enterprise WSDL, its as easy as reading in the file as an array of bytes, constructing a Document object and calling create.
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You seem to be forgetting that apex runs server side, and therefore can't magically grab random content from your local desktop.
The easiest (programatic) way to create documents from a client machine, is via the regular web services API, using the enterprise WSDL, its as easy as reading in the file as an array of bytes, constructing a Document object and calling create.
OK, I am creating a web service which will take in various parameters to then create the attachment. I am not sure
how to declare the body of the attachment.
I have:
WebService public static boolean CreateEmailAttachment(ID AccOppID, string sName, string sBody, integer iBodyLength, string sContentType, ID CreatedByID){
I don't think that the body should be string but I am not sure what to declare it. I know I have to convert the body of an attachment to a
byte array but how do I make sure the text in the attachment will be correct and not a string of hex?
It should be a Blob, although i don't see the point of creating a new service for this when you can do the same thing easily via the existing enterprise or partner apis.
This is the situation. The users will select attachments that they want to upload. The information from the
attachments will be put into a SQL table and uploaded to SF every fifteen minutes using a windows service that
will call a web service. Now is there a more efficient way to do this? Users will be selecting lots of attachments!
I didn't want to upload each attachment separately. Is there another way to do this?
Thanks for your patience. I have been studying the enterprise .wsdl file and am not sure what you are specifically thinking about. I would appreciate a little more help please!