1. Find filename of attachment.
2. Save filename to second list.

function PreSaveAction() {
	 // alert("PreSave");

$("input[name^='fileupload']").each(function() {
		if ($(this).val() != "") {
			alert($(this).val());
			var fpath = $(this).val();
			var m = fpath.match(/(.*)[\/\\]([^\/\\]+\.\w+)$/);

			alert(m[2]); 

	}
	});  

$().SPServices({
        operation: "UpdateListItems",
        async: false,
        listName: "WorkInfo",
        updates: "" +
                "" +
                "" + m[2] + "" +
                "" +
            "",
        completefunc: function(xData, Status) {
         alert("Status=" + Status + " XML=" + xData.responseXML.xml);
        }
    });
    return true;
}

I have run into this need a couple times and haven’t found a good solution to be honest. The best way I could solution this was to create a log list, and write my own function to hijack the hyperlink you click when you open the attachment. That function then makes a web service call to write the document name and username into the log list.

It’s a clunky solution, but I have yet to come up with a better one–if you do, please share!

Mike

My apologies, it seems my notification was turned off and I didn’t realize you’d posted.

Brian’s approach will work for attaching documents behind the scenes. Your other option is to use the web services to push a new attachment into a collection; although I’ve run into some memory issues with that when encoding large files client-side with Javascript.

Hope you got everything sorted out, again sorry for the lack of response.

When using Rendering Templates, every control can be overriden and you can create a supporting class for it. When you do that, you just subclass SaveButton and override the methods like SaveItem. I used my “new” SaveButton to control field level write access to my list item.

If you do nothing they will just save into the item for you probably through the same process.

When I did this I was overriding SaveItem in the SaveButton control using RenderingTemplates.