Uploading Attachments to a Work Item

This action uploads attachments to a Workflow work item. For this, you must execute a POST request on the Attachments Collection.

To upload attachments to a Workflow work item:

1. On the SAP NetWeaver Gateway system, go to transaction SPRO, open the SAP Reference IMG and navigate to  SAP NetWeaver  Gateway  OData Channel  Administration  General Settings  Activate and Maintain Services .

2. Select the Workflow service.

3. Execute a POST request on the AttachmentsCollection.

4. Fill in the request body as shown in the example below.

   Request body
   <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
   <atom:id></atom:id>
   <atom:summary>Summary</atom:summary>
   <atom:title>Title</atom:title>
   <atom:updated>2010-08-09T14:35:45Z</atom:updated>
   <atom:author>
   <atom:name></atom:name>
   </atom:author>
   <atom:content type="application/xml">
   <m:properties xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">
   <d:filename>testfile_excel</d:filename>
   <d:extension>doc</d:extension>
   <d:content>ZGZzZnNkZnNmc2Rmc2Y=</d:content>
   </m:properties>
   </atom:content>
   </atom:entry>
                  

• Important: To enter the attachment content to the body, you must first decode it to Base64. Only then is the attachment uploaded to the item.

• The fields filename, file_ext, and content are mandatory.