# Issue uploading attachment via API

**URL:** <https://community.servicem8.com/t/issue-uploading-attachment-via-api/637>\
**Category:** API & SDK\
**Created:** [September 10, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://community.servicem8.com/t/issue-uploading-attachment-via-api/637 "2021-09-10T08:01:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://community.servicem8.com/t/issue-uploading-attachment-via-api/637/1 "2021-09-10T08:01:16Z")

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**Originally posted by Andres Lopez de Faria**

I’m writing setting up a simple add on which will take PDFs from Google Drive and attach them to a ServiceM8 Job, for simplicity I’m doing writing all the code via Google Apps Scripts.

It was a lot of trial and error to get to the point I got, however I have now come to a point which I see a few others have gotten to (by looking through the discussion threads here) but none of them seem to show me a final response.

I was able to get to get an Ok message, and after a lot of trialling I have been able to get the PDF document to actually show up on the Job Diary, however upon opening the file it is empty.

I had no luck at all with images, they would not even show up on the Job Diary.

Here is my code:

function createAttachmentRecord() {  
const options = {  
‘method’: ‘POST’,  
‘headers’: {  
Accept: ‘application/json’,  
‘Content-Type’: ‘application/pdf’,  
Authorization: ‘Basic email/password’  
},  
‘payload’: JSON.stringify({  
active: 1,  
attachment\_name: ‘test.pdf’,  
file\_type: ‘.pdf’,  
related\_object: ‘job’,  
related\_object\_uuid: ‘3e31d242-2f15-4dd5-8a87-1d837d817c5b’  
})  
};  
const url = ‘[https://api.servicem8.com/api\_1.0/attachment.json](https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/attachment.json)’;  
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);  
Logger.log(response.getContentText());  
var obj = response.getAllHeaders();  
var newUUID = obj[“x-record-uuid”];  
getAttachement(newUUID);  
Logger.log("New UUID " + newUUID);  
}

function getAttachement(newUUID){  
var fileToAttach = DriveApp.getFileById(‘1Yle6cG5EZuk\_EMFd7ZE3IIUq72bspxuo’);  
var type = fileToAttach.getBlob().getContentType();

var fileData = fileToAttach.getBlob().getBytes();

uploadAttachment(newUUID, fileData, type);  
}

function uploadAttachment(newUUID, fileData){

const url = ‘[https://api.servicem8.com/api\_1.0/Attachment/](https://api.servicem8.com/api_1.0/Attachment/)’ + newUUID + ‘.file’;  
const options = {  
‘method’: ‘POST’,  
‘headers’: {  
Accept: ‘application/json’,  
‘Content-Type’: ‘application/pdf’,  
Authorization: ‘Basic email/password’  
},  
‘payload’: JSON.stringify({  
file: fileData,  
active: 1  
})  
};  
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);  
Logger.log(response.getContentText());

}

Hopefully someone can identify where my mistake is, or guide me with an alternative way of converting the data to binary (which is where I think my problem might be).

Any assistance on this front will be greatly appreciated.