topic Open PDF File via Link in QlikView

Open PDF File via Link

cranium144 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:02:30 GMT

Hi there. I'm attempting to be able to click on a filename and have it open in Acrobat (in this case, a PDF). I've successfully created a link for tracking numbers that opens a webpage. And I have gotten the PDF file to open in development. However, when I try via browser, it gives an error that it cannot find the file.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Open PDF File via Link

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:17:50 GMT

We do this now. Our preferred method is to use a button that uses the Open URL action to get to a web site.

http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/region/

We also open PDF documents that are stored on our server by using the launch action with filename

https://your_server_name.com/qlikview/Supplemental/us_regdiv.pdf

HTH

Mike

Re: Open PDF File via Link

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:38:02 GMT

Are you trying with chrome or IE ?

Which version of QV you are using ?

Re: Open PDF File via Link

cranium144 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:40:25 GMT

I am using Chrome.

QV 11.20.126640.0 SR9 x64

Re: Open PDF File via Link

dgreenberg — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:25:51 GMT

The browsers cannot find the file.

Is the file hosted on an IIS Server? If so try entering the full URL path for the file in the client's browser http://server1/document1.pdf

It's most likely a permissions issue.