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  • 1.  Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 06/29/25 11:56 AM
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    There is a requirement to interface PR attachments from MAS Manage 9 to external system.

    I have used the below method in publish channel user exit script to retrieve the content. 

    attachments=Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(XMLUtils.readXMLFileToBytes(mbo.getString("DOCINFO.URLNAME"))))

    But it throws exception 

    java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at java.util.Base64$Encoder.encode(Base64.java:267) ~[?:?]
    at java.util.Base64$Encoder.encodeToString(Base64.java:321) ~[?:?]
    This code was well working with Maximo 7.6 .
    Please find the user exit script attached.
    DOCINFO.URLNAME is store as cos:doclinks/myfile.pdf
    Has anyone come across this issue?
    Kindly provide your input
    Thanks
    Ratheesh


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  • 2.  RE: Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 06/30/25 01:53 AM
    Edited by Liliana Malaescu 06/30/25 01:53 AM

    Hi Ratheesh,

    When he had to interface the attached documents to another external system, we only sent the DOCLINKS and DOCINFO information to the other system, not the actual file itself. So we only sent the path to the file to the external system. 

    Please check: mxe.cosnestedfile system property and the following thread: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/discussion/mas-migrate-attachments-with-same-folder-structure-using-mxecosnestedfile-1

    Hope this helps.

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    Kind Regards,

    Liliana Malaescu

    Senior Maximo Technical Consultant

    ZNAPZ, part of Naviam

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  • 3.  RE: Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 06/30/25 02:43 AM

    Hi Ratheesh,

    could you please elaborate what do you exactly mean by saying "There is a requirement to interface PR attachments from MAS Manage 9 to external system."?
    Does it mean that you're integrating attachment references (URLs pointing back to Manage) or the actual attachment content?

    If it's the latter then you may use built-in feature of adding and activating in your object structure non-persistent DOCLINKS.DOCUMENTDATA attribute (ref. screenshot below). This way you may easily expose all PR attachments as Base64 strings. Of course this may dramatically increase the size of the outbound integration message which you should account for in your integration pipeline design.



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    Andrzej Więcław
    Maximo Technical SME
    ZNAPZ B.V.
    Wrocław, Poland
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  • 4.  RE: Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 06/30/25 05:22 AM

    Hi Andrzej 

    It is the latter. Integrate actual attachment content.

    I have tried with the non-persistent DOCLINKS.DOCUMENTDATA  but it always comes blank.



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  • 5.  RE: Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 06/30/25 06:05 AM

    Hi Ratheesh,

    I think the reason for this behavior could that you're using JSON as an output message type. Could you quickly test your scenario with XML output and see whether DOCLINKS.DOCUMENTDATA gets populated?



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    Maximo Technical SME
    ZNAPZ B.V.
    Wrocław, Poland
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  • 6.  RE: Integrating attachment from MAS to external system

    Posted 07/01/25 04:18 AM

    Hi Andrzej 

    Thanks for your input. It worked with XML and later with JSON as well.

    Initially I was trying to get the DOCUMENTDATA from mbo which was returning blank. But it worked with Objectstructure.

    Thanks



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