dumb question: how to check for attachments?

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Paul,
Definitely works in 620 or later. Up to 4.6x it was a no go.

I've seen that message as well - also on 620 at the moment. I deleted the
step, saved & went out of WF builder and recreated it and it was fine.

Note that EX is different to checking for an initial value. If your
multiline has a blank element it will return TRUE. If it shows as <Not
Set> in your container it should return FALSE.

Cheers,
Mike

On Mon, November 13, 2006 22:03, Paul Bakker wrote:
> Thanks Mike. We're on Basis 620.
>
> I have tried using 'EX', but it always comes back as TRUE, even if the
> Attachments element is empty!
>
> I'm also a little disturbed by the message 'Search term
> &_Attach_Objects& not found" (WO 641), which keeps appearing whenever
> I open the condition editor for this expression. I can run 'check'
> the expression with no problems though.
>
> Can someone please confirm that they have successfully checked for an
> empty 'Attachments' element using 'EX'?.
>
> I can see in OSS that there have been some problems with EX in the
> past, but we have all the latest patches.
>
> thanks again
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 11/13/06, Mike Pokraka <asap at workflowconnections.com> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> Version? On newer systems you can use the existence operator EX to
>> determine if a multiline contains anything.
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> On Mon, November 13, 2006 00:30, Paul Bakker wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > A very simple question but it's driving me nuts.
>> >
>> > I would like to add a 'condition' step to my workflow to check if the
>> > user has entered any attachments. In other words, check if the
>> > SAP-standard multi-line element 'Attachments' is empty.
>> >
>> > How do you do this in the condition editor? It won't allow:
>> >
>> > &Attachments& = ''
>> > &Attachments& = []
>> >
>> > It will allow:
>> > &Attachments& NE BO.SOFM.
>> >
>> > .. but that doesn't work.
>> >
>> > I must be missing something obvious. But what is it?
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> > Paul
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