URL Button to Preview File
I have a file attachment and I'm looking to make a button for the user to preview the file attachment. I found an old thread about this suggesting the following, however when I click that I get a url ...
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Reach out to Ryan Stanford, he was able to do it. Check out the last entry of this thread:
video in pop up window
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Adam Keever
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video in pop up window
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Adam Keever
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- @Adam keever, thanks for resharing the post. This is useful. I had the similar requirement recently to open the file itself when clicked. However, due to native, it only got download instead. I was using excel/word/ppt and pdf files.
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Babi Panjikar
------------------------------- I guess It's a bit late but I am using this option to preview the files and it works well for me.
Field = Formula URL
var text url = URLRoot() & "up/" & Dbid() & "/a/r" & [Record ID#] & "/e6/v0";
var text doctype = Right(Right(ToText([File]), "/"), ".");
If ($doctype = "pdf" or $doctype = "doc" or $doctype = "PDF" or $doctype = "DOC" or $doctype = "xls" or $doctype = "xlsx" or $doctype = "pptx" or $doctype = "docx", "https://docs.google.com/gview?url="&$url&"&embedded/=true",URLRoot() & "up/" & Dbid() & "/a/r" & [Record ID#] & "/e6/v0")
Places where you have e6 insert the field I.D instead of 6 and if you come across any other document type that you are using then just add it's extension to the doc type and it should be good.
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Srinath MR
------------------------------- I tried using this but instead of seeing the pdf file, it shows me the code behind the pdf file. How can I fix this?
Thanks
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Chaim Weiss
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