Using Interfaces to the CopyAttachments and CleanAttachments Functions

PeopleTools provides three interfaces to executing the CopyAttachments and CleanAttachments functions (select PeopleTools, Utilities, Administration, Administer File Processing):

• Copy File Attachments (Batch) page.

  Use the Copy File Attachments (Batch) page to execute the CopyAttachments function asynchronously via the COPYATTS Application Engine program. This ensures that a large CopyAttachments job does not terminate prematurely due to a timeout. See System and Server Administration: Copy File Attachments (Batch) for more information.

• Delete Orphan Files (Batch) page.

  Use the Delete Orphan Files (Batch) page to execute the CleanAttachments function asynchronously via the CLEANATT84 Application Engine program. This ensures that a large CleanAttachments job does not terminate prematurely due to a timeout. See System and Server Administration: Delete Orphan Files (Batch) for more information.

• Manage Attachment Repositories page.

  Use the Manage Attachment Repositories page to execute either CopyAttachments or CleanAttachments directly in a synchronous manner. See System and Server Administration: Manage Attachment Repositories for more information.

  Note:

  Executing either CopyAttachments or CleanAttachments directly in a synchronous manner may result in a timeout if the number of file attachments to be processed is large. Therefore, Oracle recommends that you use the batch processing interfaces instead.

Note:

None of these interfaces allow you to set all of the optional parameters of either CopyAttachments or CleanAttachments. If you want to enable the use of these optional parameters, you must clone and then modify the existing PeopleCode or implement your own PeopleCode to do this.