Opening attachment into a new tab instead of downloading

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Hi Everyone,I've an attachment field in the report and need to always download attachment to open it. Is there a way, we can open attached file in a new tab instead of downloading the entire file? Many times, need to just see a small things in the attachment and download is not required.Thanks in advance!------------------------------Mrunali Kadam------------------------------

edwardhefter · Answer

Due to security settings that QB has, some files can't be viewed directly in the browser and need to be downloaded first (even if they are downloaded and then opened right away in the system viewer) regardless of browser or browser setting.

I went round and round with them a few years ago when they took away the ability to view a PDF in the browser the way that most other websites (anyone with a statement like banks, DocuSign, etc.) will allow. They said there was a security concern in allowing it to open in the browser but didn't explain what the issue was. I'd love for them to change it back, because I hate having a bunch of files on computer I don't need.

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Edward Hefter
www.Sutubra.com
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markshnier__you · Answer

Just to add to what Keith said above, I have a client with a very extensive image library of jpg files for each of their SKU items located on their internal servers.&nbsp; They are used in their IBM Enterprise Computing System to show product images both to the internal Customer Service Reps as well as a Customer facing Shopping Cart type app, but we wanted to leverage this image library and expose them in various Quickbase applications as well.&nbsp;Browsers are deliberately designed such that for security purposes they cannot crawl into your computer's hard drive or server file paths, so that means that Quickbase cannot natively show those files.&nbsp; We worked with Juiced to allow their servers to access our image library and then they render the image within Quickbase in a seamless User Experience manner.------------------------------Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

mrunalikadam · Answer

I'm not sure about this file attachment field property. Please advise if anyone has any idea. Thank you!------------------------------Mrunali Kadam------------------------------

markshnier__you · Answer

It is a setting on your local computer as to how the browser handles file attachments. It may take some googling on your part, but for example if you click on a file attachment of type pdf, you may want to have your computer always open it up using Acrobat Reader. If you click a file of type xlsx, then you may want your computer to always open that with Excel.

On my Mac running Chrome, when I right click on the downloaded file in the footer area of my Chrome, it gives me a choice as to what to "always"s do with that file type.

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Mark Shnier (Your Quickbase Coach)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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mrunalikadam · Answer

Thank you Mark! I'll do research around. On my windows laptop, when I right click on the attachment name and select open link in new tab/window then it still asks to download instead of just opening in new tab.

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Mrunali Kadam
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Opening attachment into a new tab instead of downloading