Attachments Property (Message Object)

The Attachments property returns a single Attachment object or an Attachments collection object. Read-only.

Syntax

Set objAttachColl = objMessage.Attachments

Set objOneAttach = objMessage.Attachments(index)

objAttachColl

Object. An Attachments collection object.

objMessage

Object. The Message object.

objOneAttach

Object. A single Attachment object.

index

Long. Specifies the number of the attachment within the Attachments collection. Ranges from 1 to the value specified by the Attachments collection’s Count property.

Data Type

Object (Attachment or Attachments collection)

Remarks

You can change individual Attachment objects within the Attachments collection, Add them to the collection, and Delete them from the collection. However, unlike the Recipients property, the Attachments property is read-only, so you cannot, for example, copy the complete Attachments collection to another message with a single instruction.

Although the Attachments property itself is read-only, the collection it returns can be accessed in the normal manner through its Add and Delete methods, and the properties on its member Attachment objects retain their respective read/write or read-only accessibility.

The Attachments property does not correspond to a MAPI property and cannot be rendered into HTML hypertext by the CDO Rendering Library. If a single Attachment object is returned, it could be rendered as an object by setting the ObjectRenderer object's DataSource property to the Attachment object returned by the Attachments property.

Example

This code fragment uses the Attachments property to retrieve an attachment of the message:

' from the sample function Message_Attachments 
    Set objAttachColl = objOneMsg.Attachments 
    If objAttachColl Is Nothing Then 
        MsgBox "unable to set Attachments collection" 
        Exit Function 
    Else 
        MsgBox "Attachments count for this msg: " & objAttachColl.Count 
        iAttachCollIndex = 0 ' reset global index variable 
    End If 
' from the sample function Attachments_FirstItem 
    iAttachCollIndex = 1 
    Set objAttach = objAttachColl.Item(iAttachCollIndex)