> #### 4.4.6 Specifying the Application Used to View an Attachment in the Process Designer

> Before you can view an attachment in the Process Designer, you must associate its filename extension to the application that will open all files of that type.

> The filename extension is the part of a filename that follows the dot. After you have specified an association between an application and an extension, the Process Designer uses that application to open all documents with that extension.

> ###### To define an association for Microsoft Windows:

> 1. On the Process Instance Properties dialog of any process instance, click the Associations button.

> 2. Enter the type of the document in the Type field (for example, Text).

> 3. Type the filename extension for this type of document in the Ext field (for example, txt).

> If a document type has more than one possible extension, type the extensions separated by spaces or commas (for example, html htm or txt,ini,bat).

> 4. Click Browse, and select the program that you want to use to open documents of this type. Alternatively, type the entire path and application executable in the Program text box. Example: C:\WINDOWS\notepad.exe.

> 5. Click Add.

> 6. Click Close to dismiss the Document Association dialog.

> To remove an association, select it in the list, and click Remove.

> ###### To define an association on a Sun Solaris computer:

> The above steps will work if you are opening an attachment through Emacs. However, if you are opening the program through a program like vi or view, you will need to first create a window to open the document in. The following line is an example of the command you might use.

> /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -exec /usr/bin/view

> In this example, the command /usr/openwin/bin/xterm creates the window. This is sized through the parameter -geometry 80x66+0+0. The final element, -exec /usr/bin/view, indicates the program that will display the file in the window.

> You can create shell files (such as x.csh) to display the document in different types or sizes of windows with only a few letters. Thus, you might type x.csh into the Program text box, instead of the entire command listed above.

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