topic Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome in QlikView

Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:16:04 GMT

Hello Experts,

i am trying to open document pdf/png (hyperlink) from a column in chart (table). it works well on IE but not in chrome. i saw some related posts but cant find exact answer to my query so again posting the question.

for information the files are located on different server. please help

Thanks,

Shrikant

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

jyothish8807 — Thu, 31 May 2018 06:37:33 GMT

Hi Srikant,

It will be easy to help you, if you can let us know how you have implemented the hyperlinks ?

Br,

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2018 06:39:04 GMT

in expression-

= if(not isnull(leaveDocPath), 'Click here<url>File://server1/LeaveDocs/'&leaveDocPath,'NA')

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:21:06 GMT

Does this path (File://server1/LeaveDocs/) exist for all users?

Also, did you check permissions on Chrome? Is Chrome in that computer pending an update?

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

jyothish8807 — Thu, 31 May 2018 07:27:30 GMT

Can you try this once :

'Click here' & '<url>'&'File://server1/LeaveDocs/'&leaveDocPath

Br,

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2018 08:14:48 GMT

Yes its working in IE and through desktop application. Chrome is up to date

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2018 08:17:36 GMT

didn't help

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Thu, 31 May 2018 08:20:19 GMT

You can try running in the URL box

chrome://restart

And see whether it works.

It does for me, so if it doesn't, and it's not related to that computer's cache, you should engage with the IT team in case they have some policy not allowing to open these type of links in Chrome.

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2018 08:53:01 GMT

Thanks, but it still not working

There is no policy blocking of chrome and i have full admin rights to my machine... do i need any extension?

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Thu, 31 May 2018 11:11:00 GMT

You should try what Gysbert recommended, a Chrome extension to open local files with the browser.

Anyway, I would still check with IT, this should work just fine. Did you try in a different laptop and also in the QlikView server?

Is this a network share? If so, did you try typing the URL yourself in the browser and see which error returns (forbidden, not found, etc.)?

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2018 11:57:19 GMT

Bang on... with extension it works perfectly.

just for your information... i was able to access the files if typed the URL (address) manually in chrome

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 03:50:12 GMT

Anything similar available for Firefox?

Re: Open document from chart column in Chrome

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 06:17:46 GMT

There might be, if Firefox does not allow that via its own flags. I have not used Firefox for a long, long time so I'm not familiar with its features.