topic Button to open document in pdf in QlikView

Button to open document in pdf

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello,

i'm new in Qlikview and I try to open a pdf document when you click on a button in a access point's board.
can you help me please ?

must I create an url but how or must i write the directory of the folder which contains the files ?

Thanks a lot

Enovia

Re: Button to open document in pdf

petter — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:40:10 GMT

1. Create the Button

2. Go to the Actions Tab

3. Press Add

4. Select Action Type: External

5. Select Action: Open URL

6. Press OK

6. Fill in the URL:

http : / / someserver / documents / somePDFfile.pdf

7. Press OK.

Re: Button to open document in pdf

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:31:53 GMT

Hello Petter,

I do what you say me but it's not running.

A message say me : "the document is not here or it was deleted or renamed".
My file is on the server in this adress : C:\ProgramData\QlikTech\Documents\fichiers

So when I create the url I write : http://myserver/Documents/fichiers/myPDFfile.pdf

Is it right ?

Thanks a lot

Enovia

Re: Button to open document in pdf

Bill_Britt — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:55:37 GMT

Hi,

Petter solution is right on the money. However, I want to warn you that there is a bug that will stop this from working correctly. What release are you running.

Bill

Re: Button to open document in pdf

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:07:07 GMT

Hi,

I try to open effectively acrobat reader but I've got a message "it's impossible to open the document because it was damaged or is not taking in charge".
My version of product is : 11.00.11282.0 SR1 64 bit edition (*64)

Thanks for your response.

Enovia

Re: Button to open document in pdf

Bill_Britt — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:32:02 GMT

HI,

That is a very old version released 3 years ago. I am not sure if it will work with that release.

Bill

Re: Button to open document in pdf

Bill_Britt — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:24:48 GMT

Did you create a virtual folder in the Webserver to store the PDF in?

Bill