Media Object Attachments Overview
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software media objects and imaging features enable you to attach useful information to an application, including information that might currently exist as a paper-based document. The media objects feature enables you to attach the information to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software applications, forms and rows, and Object Librarian objects. The imaging feature within media objects gives you the flexibility to create an efficient method of information storage.
Use media objects to link information to applications, either to individual rows in a grid or to a form. The following list discusses the types of information that you can attach to a grid row or form:
Information |
Description |
|---|---|
Text |
The media objects functionality includes a word processor that lets you create a text-only attachment. For example, you could use a text attachment to provide specific instructions for a form or additional information about a record. |
Image |
Images include files such as Windows bitmaps, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files, and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG) files. These files might represent electronically created files as well as scanned images of paper-based documents. |
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) |
Media objects can be files that conform to the OLE standard. OLE enables you to create links among different programs. Using these links, you can create and edit an object from one program through a different program. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software provides the links that you need to attach OLE objects. You attach OLE media objects at the base form level. Media objects attached at this level are attached to a form and not to any data that might appear in the form. You can attach media objects to a grid row or a form, but the files themselves exist in separate directories. The only file information included with the application to which the OLE links is the path to the supporting file. You can only use OLE objects that you properly register and install as OLE objects through Windows. |
JDE shortcuts |
A JDE shortcut is a link that opens a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software application. Within media objects, you can only attach JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software shortcuts; you cannot attach shortcuts to third-party applications. |
Uniform Resource Locators (URL)/files |
Media objects can be links to Web page URLs or other related files. When a developer attaches a URL media object to a control object on a form, the Web page appears as part of the form. When a user attaches a URL to a form or Object Librarian object, the media object acts as a link to the URL. |
System administrators can set up templates that might include their own attachments, such as images and shortcuts. For example, you can create a letterhead and a standard form for a memo. Also, you might create a shortcut, to be included in the template, that provides access to an application that uses data specific to the information that you add to the template.
Each time you save a media object, whether it is a new media object, or whether you have modified an existing one, EnterpriseOne timestamps the media object with your user ID, the date, and time. This information appears in the upper right corner of the media object. The information that displays is retrieved from the Enterprise server, so if your Enterprise server resides in a different time zone, the time and date that displays will be different than the time zone in which you are working. For example, if you work in the Eastern time zone, but the Enterprise server you are using resides in the Pacific time zone, the date and time that is recorded when you save the media object is Pacific time.