Question

I need help on searching attachments i.e Word Document, PDF etc which are attached to the list during inserting Item in SharePoint 2010 using CAML queries.
I tried with this query

<Query>
   <Where>
        <Eq>
             <FieldRef Name="Attachments" />
             <Value Type="Attachments">WordDocument1.docx</Value>
        </Eq>
   </Where>
</Query>

im not able to get any results if i give this query.
Please help.

Answer 1

The problem here is that the Attachments field of a SharePoint list does not store the attachments itself. This column only return whether a certain list item has an attachment or
not.
The attachments are not stored in a SharePoint list. Therefore I don’t think it’s possible to retrieve them with a CAML query.