How can I refresh the XPages File Download Control and have it display updated attachments without full page refresh?

Question

When I create file download control on a document I can display the attached files from a Rich Text Field.

In a separate process I am attaching more documents to the sam

Answer 1

When partially refreshing a XPage, the datasources are not reloaded, only their last state (stored in memory or hdd ) is restored. If you change the scope of your datasource to request, the XPages engine is forced to recreate the datasource instead of using the cached one on each request (which includes partial refreshs).

This should allow you to refresh your fileDownload control without a full refresh.