Attachments archived too?

[Rick Bakker]

Thanks for the response, Mike. We're on ECC 6, SAP_BASIS 7.1.

I'm doing runs of the verification workflow in SWU3 in the Test system
and attaching SAPOffice files
to the user decision workitem that appears in my inbox. After
completing the workflow I archive it.

The archive file size when I attached a small .txt file: 0.042 MB
The archive file size when I attached a slightly bigger .docx file: 0.025MB
The archive file size when I attached a 1395KB .pdf file: 1.565 MB
Intriguing.

In each case I archived the workflow instance and "deleted" it (in
archiving terminology).
I'm still able to access the attachments when I retrieve each workflow
instance from the archive.

I haven't been able to figure out yet where SAP stores attachments to
workflows so I don't know if they are being deleted along with the
workflow.
Anybody know?

I'll also try asking in the new SDN Archiving forum.

regards
Rick Bakker
hanabi technology

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mike Pokraka
<wug at workflowconnections.com> wrote:
> I played with this back on 4.7 and attachments were definitely not visible
> in the archive retrieval transactions/functions.
>
> Maybe this has changed, or maybe it's been archived all along but remained
> invisible. The archive files themselves are not human-readable so who
> knows what's in there!
>
> Assuming you're talking about SAPOffice attachments (Excel/word/text notes
> etc.), I would think they'd fall under the SapOffice archiving strategy
> and WF only has a link - similar to attaching, say, a Sales Order to a
> work item.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
> On Wed, September 28, 2011 8:16 am, Rick Bakker wrote:
>> Greetings WUGgles,
>>
>> In the Workflow Book (2nd Edition) page 208 it says re: archiving of
>> workflows:
>> "Attachments to work items will be deleted even if they have not been
>> archived"
>>
>> I have been trying this out and as far as I can tell (from the file
>> sizes), the attachments *do* get archived along with the workitems,
>> which is what I was hoping for.
>>
>> There was a thread here last April about this which also seemed to
>> assume that attachments were not archived.
>>
>> All comments welcome.
>>
>> regards
>> Rick Bakker
>> hanabi technology