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MrunaliKadam
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago

Opening attachment into a new tab instead of downloading

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?...
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SeanBoat-Moore
Qrew Trainee
3 years ago
We created a formula url button that sits on our reports that uses google doc viewer and it opens in a pop up widnow with the document.  Doesn't work on very document type, but works on most

var text filefid = "attachment field id";
var text docurl = URLRoot() & "up/" & Dbid () & "/a/r" & [Record ID#] & "/e" & $filefid & "/v0";

"https://docs.google.com/gview?url=" & URLEncode( $docurl )

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Sean Boat-Moore
Manager SMB Development
Project Management Office and Quality Control
NCR Corporation
sean.boat-moore@ncr.com | ncr.com
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MikeTamoush
Qrew Commander
3 years ago
The solutions I have seen always involve making the file be un-secure. Browsers have different behavior and I had always used firefox because it would allow you to open the file rather than download. However, a few months ago firefox changed their behavior and it both opens AND downloads the file. Quite annoying, and I am yet to find a fix.

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Mike Tamoush
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