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I would like to be able to open a file from network location
i know you can navigate to url for a website
is it possible to navigate to file uri
file://network/file.txt
this doesn't work in the navigate to url rule
is there another way?
Best answer by ThinusC
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Hi braddo
You should be able to use a normal Data Label. The catch is to enable Literal on the control and then add the following text: <a href="file:///serversharefilename.txt">Link to file</a>
The Data Label will display a clickable link to the file on the network share.
Cheers.
T
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Hi T
I have that in other forms, i was just seeing if it was possible to use a button and rule
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Hi braddo
Using a button does make it a bit more tricky, but not impossible.
This will again require some scrips (and I am a JQuery novice, so can most probably be improved on)
The following might give you something to start with and hopefully get to what you want.
Add a button and add a Tooltip i.e. Button1 (Needs to match the script [title='Button1']
Add a Data label, set to literal and add the following text:
<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function() { $("[title='Button1']").click(function() { window.open('file:///ServerShareFile.zip')});});</script>
No K2 rules required to make this work.
The script can be built up using functions & parameters and passed into the Data Label with a Rule though.
What should happen is the script will load on the form and "wait" for the Button to be clicked. When clicked, the specified link will be opened. In this case a file on a network share.
And as RaymondJVR mentioned, it might not work in Chrome.
Cheers,
ThinusC
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thanks for that
slight mods to the filepath, adding extra slash for escape character but it works
cheers
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