link to open a pdf on a different LINUX server

[varunjain]

Hi,

I have a table which has a column consists of path to resp PDFs.I have converted them into link. Now when I clik on the link, it does not open the pdf.  More description:

1. The links are FTP links.

2. PDFs are placed in a LINUX server.

3. I have the credentials, IP and port of the linux machine.

What I want is if a user clik on the link, the control should go to the linux machine and from there open the resp pdf from there.

How can this be achieved?

Thanks in anticipation.

[kaushiknsolanki]

Dear Varun,

     As far as i know, its quite difficult, because the different mechanism of the windows and linux.

     There is yet no straight communication possible between this two diff OS.

     So i guess you must first try whether you can open the PDF on your Microsoft OS, which is located on Linux server.

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

[varunjain]

Hi Kaushik,

Thanks for the response.

Ok,thats what I was wondering.Let me try to explain the whole scenario.

There is an existing Oracle report which needs to be converted into a QV dashboard. If a user clicks on the link on the current portal it just opens up the resp PDF through some JAVA coding.

What would be the procedure like if we have to open a PDF located on some other Windows server?

The data in the column(link) i something like :

/data/XYZ/QQQ/BBB/PPP/AWC742_AWC0113000983.pdf

[kaushiknsolanki]

Hi,

     Generally the link should be something like this

     \\Ip-Address\Shared Folder Name\Filename.ext

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

[varunjain]

See in the portal if a user clicks on a link then the JAVA code runs and the control goes to the linux server and opens the pdf.. Can this be achieved in QV?

[kaushiknsolanki]

Hi,

     Yes in that case you need to give the link to the java page.

Regards,

Kaushik Solanki

[Gysbert_Wassenaar]

You can specify the name and password in an url for ftp:

ftp://username:password@hostname/somedocument.pdf

You can use that as url for a Launch action.

If you have loaded the url's to the documents in a table (e.g. with fields DocName and FTP_URL) you can use an expression like =[DocName]&'<URL>'&[FTP_URL] and set the representation type of the expression to Link.

[varunjain]

Is there a way through which I can associate my link column to the JAVA file? As in if a user cliks on a link, the JAVA code starts and open the PDF?