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

Marky,

Yes, I have run into this before. You must do a full refresh with attachments.

http://xpagesblog.com/XPagesHome.nsf/Entry.xsp?documentId=FBAC0D921B677EA0852578CB006678D7

The link is fairly old, but I believe it still applies.

Matt White says in the article comments: "...Basically it is not currently possible to post a file attachment over AJAX, you either have to use Flash or a virtual iFrame solution if you don't want the entire page to refresh. As far as I know there is nothing that IBM can do about this at the moment. Matt"