Create a URL link to fetch the file from a server location
There are some documents placed in a server folder(file path - file://xyz.local/fileshare/Data/Test/file.pdf)
I need this to be displayed as a link in Qlik Sense Dashboard. Once user clicks on this link , the file should open. If file://xyz.local/filepath/Data/Test/file.pdf is opened in Chrome, then it opens the file .
This file path is fetched from database and in Qlik Sense properties the representation is changed to URL. This appears as a URL, but when clicking on the URL it opens up a blank page in Chrome.
Can someone help me to understand what am I doing wrong? What should be the format of the file path?
Are they opening the link on the server or their own machine? file://... will look to the current machine's file system, not the server's.
Due to Qlik's security mechanism's, it's web server won't just serve up any file through its web server. It has to be from a Content Library. Here is a blog post which might help you. It's focused on HTML files, but it will work for PDFs just the same.
Thanks for that. To give a bit more background of the issue:
We have certain files stored against each employee. The path to the file can be obtained from oracle database. In Qlik, we need to show the employee's file as a URL . So once the user clicks on the URL, the document against each employee should open up.
Qlik Sense is on Server A. The file path is on Server B (not users machine). From Server A , we are able to access the files on server B directly.
I have tried below formats, but nothing works:
//servername/folder_name/file_name.pdf
File://servername/folder_name/file_name.pdf
Can you please let me know if there is a way to fetch these files without the use of Content Library?
