How Acumatica differenciate if an attachment is uploaded from "Files" or "Image" section of the Expense Receipt?

To my knowledge it doesn’t once it hits the File Maintenance. The only difference is that you can more easily call on the Image Field as it’s available for Generic Inquiries without having to join all necessary Tables to get to the File Data.

Curious to see if somebody found something else.

@krausef77 Thanks for sharing your thoughts but I am pretty sure it shomehow treats them differently otherwise why it would show preview if Upload Image is used and wouldn’t show preview if the exact same image was uploaded using the Upload File.

It’s using a different function for that specific field whereas the Files Tab is for all kinds of Files.

Once it is saved into the Database, in the Tables you mentioned there is no difference that I know of.

Again, the preview and the field itself enables it to be used in a Generic Inquiry more easily and is more user-friendly, yet outside of a different display due to file restrictions on the Image Upload, the file itself is not treated any different.

Thanks @krausef77 

Let see what other valued community members have to add.
I have done quite bit of customizations on generating attachments, uploading via code, merging, bulk downloading so I’m not stranger to its world.

Even for the purpose of showing on GI as you mentioned, Acumatica somehow should be able to differentiate these two types otherwise won’t be able to do that. But the question is how?

@darylbowman I recall from previous posts you have done quite a bit of work on File management. Any thoughts here?

Hi @aaghaei were you able to find a solution? Thank you!

Did anyone ever find a resolution for this?

Every single receipt we receive is taken whether android or iphone its uploaded as jpeg. But somehow there is never an image that should which requires us to double click and close every single receipt when viewing. I don’t understand how it cannot find the proper viewer for a jpeg when that is the file type every single time.

Is there anything that can be done to assign a viewer?