Attachments

What is an Attachment?

An Attachment is a link or image preview added to a Message in a Channel — like the rich preview card you get when you paste a link into a chat app. When you share something alongside a chat post — a website, a reference image, an external resource — it is stored as an attachment on that message.

Not yet available

GreenVee’s Channels, Messages, and Attachments are part of the underlying data model, but the app does not yet have a chat screen where you can open a Channel and post a Message. This page documents what an Attachment contains for reference; there is currently no way to create one from the GreenVee interface.

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What an Attachment contains

An attachment has nine fields:

Field	Description
Type	The kind of attachment — for example, a link or an image
Author name	The name associated with the shared content (for example, the author of an external article)
Title	A display name shown alongside the attachment
Link	The URL that opens when someone clicks the attachment
Text	A short text snippet or excerpt shown with the preview
Image URL	A preview image shown inline (useful for links and images)
Thumbnail URL	A smaller thumbnail version of the preview image
Asset URL	A link to the underlying file or asset, if the attachment wraps one
OG scrape URL	The original page URL that was scanned to build the rich preview

Not every field is required for every type — a plain file link may not have a preview image, for instance. The Author name, Text, Thumbnail URL, Asset URL, and OG scrape URL fields exist to support rich, Slack-style link previews (pulling a title, image, and excerpt from a shared URL).

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Attachments vs Drive Files

Caution

An Attachment and a File in the Drive are not the same thing.

• A File is uploaded to the Drive and lives inside a Folder. It has a version history and is part of your organisation’s file storage.
• An Attachment is associated with a specific Message. It is a way to share a URL or image link inside a chat — it does not automatically create or update a file in the Drive.

If you need a file to be part of your project’s permanent record, upload it to the Drive. Attachments are for sharing things in the flow of a conversation.

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Looking for “attach a file to a task or decision”?

That’s a different, working feature: you can attach a file directly to a Task, Issue, Decision, Takeaway, or technical structure item using the paperclip/attach control on that item — no Channel or Message involved. See Drive, Folders, Files & Versions for how that works.