Wylib Document Attachment Widget


Table of Contents

Introduction
Standard Fields
Menu Options

Introduction

The attachment Embedded Text Widget (ETW) allows you to attach a reference document to a letter. This is helpful when you want to refer to some other document in your correspondence and you want that document to be transmitted with the letter to the recipient, and also filed in the system with your letter.

Like all ETW's, there is a main menu in the upper left part of the widget where all the widget's functionality can be accessed.

It should not matter where in your letter the attachments are actually placed. However, it is a matter of good form to place them together at (or near) the end of the letter.

Typically an attachment is a file on the disk which has a standard content type (so the system knows how to handle it) like PS, PDF, DOC, GIF, JPG, etc. Depending on your local configuration, it may also be possible to attach other types of documents (like customer orders).

Standard Fields

File:
This field can not be edited directly. Instead, it gets filled out at the time the attachment is first created. The field shows the path name of the disk file you have used for the attachment. If you want to change the attachment, the pull-down button will open a file selector to allow you to do so.
Type:
This field normally has the value "file." But if the local configuration allows the attachment of other types of documents, this field may contain some other value (like "order"). This field is not directly editable.
Descr:
This field contains a description of the attachment. What you enter in this field will show up on the attachment line for this document at the bottom of your letter. It will also be used when creating email attachments.

Menu Options

The widget menu contains a number of functions to allow you to control the attachment. The menu functions are as follows:
View Document
This will allow you to see the document in a viewer applicable to the document's particular content type.
Print Document
This will attempt to translate the document to the Postscript format and will then send it to the standard print handler.
Save To File
This will allow you to export the document back to a disk file. This may be helpful, for example, if you want to re-edit the document.