Provide an Image as an Attachment to an Item Revision

You can provide an image as an attachment to an item revision and view the image in an analysis using a column of a Product Management subject area.

If you provide the image as an item attachment to the item revision, you can view the image later in an analysis using the File column in the Revision Attachments folder in these subject areas:

• Product Management - Item Revisions Real Time
• Product Management - Structures and Components Real Time

The steps you must follow for providing the image as an item attachment to the item revision are different for each subject area.

1. If you want to use the File column in the Product Management - Item Revisions Real Time subject area, follow these steps:
   1. In the Product Information Management work area, on the Tasks panel tab, select Manage Items.
      The Manage Items page opens.
   2. Search for the item to which you want to attach the image as an item attachment to an item revision.
   3. Click the item.
      The tabs for editing the item appear.
   4. On the Attachments tab, on the Item Revision subtab, click the Add Attachment icon.
      The Add Attachments pane appears.
   5. In Type, select File.
   6. In Category, select the category that's relevant to your image.
   7. Click Browse to open the File Upload dialog box, go to the image, select it, and click Open.
   8. After the image file has finished uploading, in the row for the image, in the Actions column, click the Details icon.
      The pane for the image file details appears.
   9. Select the Shared check box.
   10. Click Update.
   11. Click Save.
2. If you want to use the File column in the Product Management - Structures and Components Real Time subject area, follow these steps:
   1. In the Product Development work area, on the Tasks panel tab, select Manage Items.
      The Manage Items page opens.
   2. Search for the item to which you want to attach the image as an item attachment to an item revision.
   3. Click the item.
      The tabs for editing the item appear.
   4. On the Attachments tab, click the Add Attachment icon.
      The Add Attachments pane appears.
   5. In Type, select File.
   6. In Category, select the category that's relevant to your image.
   7. Click Browse to open the File Upload dialog box, go to the image, select it, and click Open.
   8. After the image file has finished uploading, in the row for the image, in the Actions column, click the Details icon.
      The pane for the image file details appears.
   9. Select the Shared check box.
   10. Click Update.
   11. Click Save and Close.
   12. In the Scheduled Processes work area, run the Expand Structure for Business Intelligence process for the item and its organizations.