I am a bit late on this topic. We already have many posts (including Feature of the Day – Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP) on this written by several community members. So instead of repeating it again, I am just adding pointers here to those posts.

To just brief what it is: Document Attachment is a new feature in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013, which would enhance the way we currently deal with document attachments on a record. If you had sensed it right, yes it’s almost like OLE Notes, but much more than that.

This scores above OLE Notes, purely on grounds of three main factors:

1. It doesn’t restrict itself to 32 bit architecture, like OLE notes container does.
2. It is compatible with Web Client, but OLE notes is not.
3. It stores the attachments on company specific SQL tables. You heard it right. It stores on database by harnessing SQL Server’s file stream, if I am not wrong.

More information about this (and how to use) could be read on below posts:

• Inside Microsoft Dynamics GP – Feature of the Day: Document Attach
• Azurecurve (Ian Grieve) – MDGP 2013 Feature of the Day: Document Attach
• iSolutions’ Blog – Dynamics GP 2013 Document Attachment Feature

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