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Akshata Kulkarni (37219) | asked Jun 09 '15, 8:24 a.m.
edited Jun 09 '15, 9:26 a.m. by Ralph Schoon (63.1k33645)
Hi,
I have attached a pdf to a workitem .How can i  read the pdf contents using oslc?
Thanks in advance !

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Beth Beese (312) | answered Jul 22 '15, 12:06 p.m.
 Hi Donald-

You can’t actually see attachments using OSLC integration. Not only can you not read/retrieve the attachment, you don’t even know it’s there. The rich hover & Adapter UI functionality does not show attachments.

To retrieve an attachment, you could use the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters-Tasktop Edition (RLIA-TE), you can learn more about RLIA-TE here:

http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/solutiondetails.do?&solution=46335&lc=en

Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!
Thanks and Best
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Beth Beese 
| Business Development Manager | Tasktop Technologies
phone: 647-938-3759| web: task top.com | skype: beth.beese-tasktop 

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Donald Nong (14.5k414) | answered Jun 09 '15, 10:40 p.m.
Not quite sure it's doable as it seems to be blocked in my environment. Here are the steps that I use.
1. Access the work item shortcut /ccm/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/###
2. Locate the attachment in the XML presentation, which is the <rtc_cm:com.ibm.team.workitem.linktype.attachment.attachment> tag.
3. Access the attachment link /ccm/resource/itemOid/com.ibm.team.workitem.Attachment/xxxxxxxxxxxxx. The response contains details about the attachment, such as file type, file size and etc. The link to the actual file content is the <rtc_cm:content> tag.
4. Try to access the content link but I get this warning.
You have followed a direct link to content hosted in a Jazz server.  This page has been presented to ensure that a malicious website cannot use cleverly crafted content to circumvent security. If you would like to access the content, please use the link below.

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Ralph Schoon (63.1k33645) | answered Jun 09 '15, 9:31 a.m.
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See this discussion. Maybe that helps: https://jazz.net/forum/questions/150849/how-to-upload-an-attachment-to-a-work-item-via-rest-api it is for upload, but maybe there is a similar approach.

I only have code for uploading and downloading using Java in

https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/downloading-attachments-from-work-items/

and

https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/uploading-attachments-to-work-items/

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