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Using an Computed Field (iFrame) to Show a Locally Stored File PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:14:21 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to show a PDF file from my network in an iframe. I'm getting close but not yet successful.

Currently my iframe looks like this:

'<iframe> width="1000" height="1000" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="file:///\\<server>\<folder path>\<filename>.pdf"</iframe>'

If copy and paste file:///\\<server>\<folder path>\<filename>.pdf into Chrome it works fine (Chrome converts the path to file://xx%20yy/ etc).

I tried using an @ like src@"file:/// (etc.) but only saw the mystery guy.

Any ideas?

Re: Using an Computed Field (iFrame) to Show a Locally Stored File PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:18:04 GMT

When I inspect the element of the ifram here's what I see:

Re: Using an Computed Field (iFrame) to Show a Locally Stored File PDF

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:51:06 GMT

UPDATE:

I tried just using a URL field to get to the file on disk but that didn't work either. The odd this is my URL looked like this:

file:///\\<server>\etc

But when I hover over the URL the target displayed at the bottom (in Chrome) is:

file////<server>\etc

It appears that the colon gets truncated server side which alters the target.

Re: Using an Computed Field (iFrame) to Show a Locally Stored File PDF

bastien.mazeran — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:04:50 GMT

Hi,

Could you perhaps consider installing Microsoft IIS web server on one of your local server and create a new "Documents" folder under c:\inetpub\wwwroot to store your PDF files? This way you would access the PDF file via http://<iis web server name>/Documents/<pdf filename>.pdf instead of using file:// command.

You will need to enable directory browsing in IIS for your Documents web folder.

Regards,

Re: Using an Computed Field (iFrame) to Show a Locally Stored File PDF

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:35:22 GMT

I was finally able to get a hyperlink to open a local file.

My final solution was to:

In Chrome:

Install an extension for using local links: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jllpkdkcdjndhggodimiphkghogcpida

In IE9:

Add PLM 360 tenant URL to my trusted sites and local intranet.

I'm going to assume this will work also for an iframe.

Cheers!