Enabling field attachments

Field attachments are documents and images that are linked to specific fields. You can use field attachments to highlight information on charts, or to provide additional information about a specific field value.

About this task

Field attachments allow you to associate additional information with specific fields. For example, a scan of identifying documents that verify a given name.

Note:

  • Field Attachments are enabled at a database level, you cannot restrict the types of records or fields that allow attachments

  • Documents and images that are attached to fields are not indexed.

If you would like the document or image information to be searchable, add a field of the correct type to store your document or image. For more information on creating fields, see Creating a field.

Procedure

To turn on field attachments:

Select Tools > Feature Availability > Enable Field Attachments.

The database is now ready to accept field attachments.