# Remove an Attachment

Source: https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/delete_workflow_finding_attachment/

**Beta**

Removes the attachment from the finding. Once removed, it no longer appears in [List a Finding's Attachments](https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/get_workflow_finding_attachments) and no longer counts toward `hasAttachments`.

An attachment can't be edited in place. To change one, remove it and add the replacement with [Add an Attachment](https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/create_workflow_finding_attachment).

Needs `riskinsight:JournalResolvedValueUpdateAttachment` in the finding's `authorization.allow`: the same permission adding an attachment needs.

### Sample

```bash
url="https://api.pointservices.com/riskinsight-services-ws/resources/v1/findings/workflows/wfpop_0000000000002082611/findings/fndg_0000000000006051384/attachments/jattmt_0000000000006099213"
curl -X DELETE "${url}" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your_access_token_here"
```

#### Header Properties

| Property | Value | Required? |
|----------|-------|-----------|
| Authorization | Bearer *your token* | true |

#### Path Parameters

| Property | Description | Type |
|----------|-------------|------|
| workflowId | The workflow's id, exactly as this API returned it. | string |
| findingId | The finding's id, exactly as published in `findingId`. | string |
| attachmentId | The attachment's id, exactly as published in `attachmentId`. It must belong to the finding named in the path. | string |

> **Warning:** `workflowId`, `findingId` and `attachmentId` are opaque. Send each one back exactly as this API returned it: don't parse it, build one yourself, or add or remove its prefix. A `findingId` or `attachmentId` that isn't exactly as published, including one with its prefix removed, returns a 404 as if it didn't exist.

### Responses

**200**

The finding after the removal: the same as a [Get One Finding](https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/get_workflow_finding) made right afterwards, except that **`category` is left out**. GET the finding when you need its categories. See [List a Workflow's Findings](https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/get_workflow_findings_list) for the full `Finding` field table.

```json
{
  "workflowId": "wfpop_0000000000002082611",
  "finding": {
    "findingId": "fndg_0000000000006051384",
    "code": "HP.ST",
    "displayName": "High-priority stated income mismatch",
    "references": [
      { "correlationId": "borrower-1", "type": "person" },
      { "correlationId": "subject-property", "type": "property" }
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "result": "Fail",
    "resultOrOverriddenResult": "Fail",
    "userMessage": ["Stated income does not match the verified source document."],
    "userSuggestion": ["Confirm the applicant's income against the attached document before proceeding."],
    "reviewed": false,
    "reviewRequired": true,
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-07T15:08:47Z",
    "hasAttachments": false,
    "hasHistory": true,
    "authorization": {
      "allow": [
        "riskinsight:JournalResolvedValueReview",
        "riskinsight:JournalResolvedValueUpdateNote",
        "riskinsight:JournalResolvedValueUpdateAttachment"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

The removal adds an `edited` entry to the finding's [history](https://docs.pitchpointsolutions.com/api/findings/get_workflow_finding_history), so `hasHistory` is `true`.

**401**

No credential the service could accept reached it. The body is an RFC 9457 problem document, served as `application/problem+json`, and the response carries a `WWW-Authenticate` challenge. The request body is never read, so a 401 says nothing about whether the rest of your request would have been accepted.

Two problem types tell the cases apart:

| `type` | Meaning | `WWW-Authenticate` |
|--------|---------|--------------------|
| `about:blank` | No credential was presented. | `Bearer realm="Helix"` |
| `https://pointservices.com/problems/invalid-token` | A credential was presented and rejected. The response doesn't say why: an expired, revoked, badly signed and malformed token all look the same. | `Bearer realm="Helix", error="invalid_token"` |

```json
{
  "type": "https://pointservices.com/problems/invalid-token",
  "title": "The access token was not accepted",
  "status": 401,
  "detail": "The access token was rejected.",
  "instance": "urn:pps:request:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}
```

> **Warning:** Refresh your token on a 401, and only on a 401. An expiring token moves a call from 200 to 401, never to 403, so a fresh token is the fix here and never the fix for a 403.

**403**

You may not read this workflow, or you lack permission to update this finding's attachments or this workflow.

You are authenticated, and the answer is still no. This is an authorization decision, not a statement about your token, so refreshing the token won't turn it into a 200. Nothing is changed: a refused request is all or nothing, so there is nothing to clean up on your side.

The body is an RFC 9457 problem document, served as `application/problem+json`. Two problem types tell the cases apart:

| `type` | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| `about:blank` | The request was refused before the operation ran. |
| `https://pointservices.com/problems/not-authorized` | The operation ran, and policy won't let you act on the workflow or finding you named. |

```json
{
  "type": "https://pointservices.com/problems/not-authorized",
  "title": "Not authorized",
  "status": 403,
  "detail": "The authenticated identity is not permitted to perform this action.",
  "instance": "urn:pps:request:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}
```

A 403 can also come from the edge, before the service is reached: for example, when a request value resembles SQL injection or cross-site scripting. Those refusals carry no problem document. Write your client to handle an error response it can't parse, rather than assuming every failure has a JSON body.

**404**

Unknown `workflowId`, unknown `findingId`, or unknown `attachmentId` (including an `attachmentId` that belongs to a different finding).

The body is an RFC 9457 problem document, served as `application/problem+json`. Two problem types tell the cases apart:

| `type` | Meaning |
|--------|---------|
| `https://pointservices.com/problems/not-found` | An id in the path isn't one this API knows. Check that you sent it exactly as the API returned it. |
| `about:blank` | The URL or method isn't one this API serves at all. Check the path. |

| Property | Description | Type |
|----------|-------------|------|
| type | An absolute URI identifying the problem type. This is the stable value to match on; compare it as a string. | string |
| title | A short summary, written for a person. | string |
| status | The HTTP status code, repeated in the body. | number |
| detail | An explanation of this occurrence, written for your logs. Never match on it. | string |
| instance | A URI identifying this occurrence, written as `urn:pps:request:<id>`. The id is the same value as the `x-pps-request-id` response header. Quote it when you report a problem to PPS. | string |

```json
{
  "type": "https://pointservices.com/problems/not-found",
  "title": "No such resource",
  "status": 404,
  "detail": "Attachment[jattmt_0000000000006099213] not found",
  "instance": "urn:pps:request:8d3a1f56-6c94-4e20-b7f8-0a5e9c2d4b73"
}
```

> **Warning:** Branch on `type`, never on the text of `title` or `detail`.

**409**

Another request changed the finding while yours was in flight, so **nothing was applied**. The body is an RFC 9457 problem document, served as `application/problem+json`, with the type `https://pointservices.com/problems/concurrent-modification`.

The service doesn't retry it for you, and the response carries no `Retry-After`. Read the finding again, decide whether your change still makes sense against what you now see, and resubmit only if it does. Don't retry blindly: you may overwrite a change someone else just made.

```json
{
  "type": "https://pointservices.com/problems/concurrent-modification",
  "title": "Concurrent modification",
  "status": 409,
  "detail": "The resource was modified by another request while this one was being processed. This request was not applied; re-read the resource before resubmitting.",
  "instance": "urn:pps:request:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
}
```