Sharepoint Attachment File Name Restrictions
I have a confession to make, I was wrong. One of my readers made a comment on a asking if the contents of attachments to list items were indexed, and therefore searchable. They were not. Had I spent five minutes to test it, I would have known better. After being called out on it by another reader I decided to test it. Imagine my surprise when I found it worked.
I had my buddy verify my results, and he did. I went to him not because of his rugged good looks, but because he just coauthored a (review coming shortly).
To sum up, if you attach a document to a list item (a contact, a task, etc) the contents of that file can be found via a search. This is true with both WSS and MOSS. It looks like the filename itself is not indexed, though. You can test this out by searching for 'Shazam' on this site.
You should get this blog post, a blog comment and an appointment named 'Search Test' where I have attached a document with Shazam in it. By contrast, if you search for 'b i n g o' (with no spaces) you won't get any hits, even though there's a file with that name attached to the same appointment.
Searching for 'f o u n d' (again, remove the spaces) will discover that attachment. That demonstrates the attachment is getting indexed, but its filename was not. These tests were all done on WSS, but I verified them on MOSS. With MOSS make sure you run a crawl between when you attach the document and when you search for it.The one downside I've seen is that the search results link to the list item, not the attachment itself. If the list item has multiple attachments it can be confusing which one is the one containing the phrase you searched for. Right now I don't have a solution to that.I hope that clears some stuff up. I apologize for any misinformation I may have spread.tk.
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I have a standard list item edit form, and would like to upload an attachment with invalid file name (for example, invalid characters or exceeding length limitation), on submitting the form I receive an exception. Despite of the error, the item itself issaved, however, if I appended other files (with valid names) as well, the ones I appended after the attachment having invalid name are not saved to the item.I tried with, but it didn't work.My requirement is to show the error message and in case of error, the items should not be saved.Deeptyranjan. Thank you Wendy for the response.I went through the jscript you have mentioned. I believe I have already gone through it earlier in some of your posts. Please can you let me know where to put this code?
Mean to ask the implementation method.Regarding the links you have provided: I have tried with them bu adding content editor web part. But it didn't work. Actually My list has been published with infopath. A normal sharepoint list would have worked with the solution method mentioned in the link.ThanksDeeptyranjan. Hi Deeptyranjan,If you are using InfoPath form, you can create a field and create a validation rule for the just created field. The complete expression is: not(xdUtil:Match(string(./my:Attachments), “A-Za-z0-9-s.”))More information, you can refer to the blog(it works for SharePoint 2010, and also work for SharePoint 2013):Best Regards,WendyTechNet Community SupportPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help.
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Sharepoint Attachment File Name Restrictions Search
If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact. Hello Wendy,I had given the expression: not ( xdUtil: Match ( string (./ my: Attachments ), “ A - Za - z0 - 9 -s.”))But seems like there is some syntax error. That's the reason it is pointing to ' (double quote) symbol as invalid character.Can you please suggest any other expression to check for special character. I tested the new control with only one special character validation. And it works.I could find one more issue: it's not allowing. (dot) character, but it's being printed within the textbox by default as file extension required this character.Deeptyranjan.