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anassNasser1-Visitor
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January 23, 2020
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Display a pdf file in mashup

  • January 23, 2020
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hi,

I want to display a pdf file in a mashup (webframe), I Set the good url, but the problem is that when i click on a grid i download the pdf file instead of display it in  a webframe.

 

help please.

Best answer by Constantine

Hello @anassNasser ,

 

The browser's behavior is determined by Content-Disposition HTTP header, see details here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6293893/how-do-i-force-files-to-open-in-the-browser-instead-of-downloading-pdf

 

Depending on how your ThingWorx is hosted, you'll have different options of configuring it. For exampl, if you have Nginx reverse proxy in front of your ThingWorx, then this config will make PDFs render inside browser instead of making it downloading them:

 

location ~* /(.*\.pdf) {
 proxy_hide_header Content-Disposition;
 add_header Content-Disposition "inline";
 ... the rest of redirect config ...
}

 
Regards,
Constantine

7 replies

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PaiChung22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
January 24, 2020

I think that is tied to the browser behavior.

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anassNasser1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
January 27, 2020

Okey I will test it in different browsers

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slangleyCommunity Manager
Support
February 6, 2020

Hi @anassNasser.

 

How did your testing go?  If you found that the issue was tied to browser behavior, please mark the response by @PaiChung as the Accepted Solution for the benefit of others on the community.

 

Regards.

 

--Sharon

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anassNasser1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 7, 2020

hi @slangley @PaiChung ,

 

I tested in Google Chrome, Mozilla firefox but i can't bind my service with URL Variable of webframe, but when I Call the mentionned in documentation I Can get my file in browser (but no result when i bind it )

 

https://colligodemo2.cristalcloud.com/Thingworx/FileRepositoryDownloader?download-repository=NomDuRepertoireLocal&directRender=true&download-path=/NomDuFichier.pdf

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PaiChung22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
February 7, 2020

Since this seems to be in a Thingworx repository.

When you run the service GetFileListingWithLinks it should give you a usable URL

 

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Constantine18-OpalAnswer
18-Opal
February 10, 2020

Hello @anassNasser ,

 

The browser's behavior is determined by Content-Disposition HTTP header, see details here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6293893/how-do-i-force-files-to-open-in-the-browser-instead-of-downloading-pdf

 

Depending on how your ThingWorx is hosted, you'll have different options of configuring it. For exampl, if you have Nginx reverse proxy in front of your ThingWorx, then this config will make PDFs render inside browser instead of making it downloading them:

 

location ~* /(.*\.pdf) {
 proxy_hide_header Content-Disposition;
 add_header Content-Disposition "inline";
 ... the rest of redirect config ...
}

 
Regards,
Constantine

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slangleyCommunity Manager
Support
February 21, 2020

Hi @anassNasser.

 

If one of the previous responses allowed you to find a solution, please mark the appropriate one as the Accepted Solution for the benefit of others on the community.  If you have found your own solution, please post it here and mark that as the Accepted Solution.

 

Regards.

 

--Sharon

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