[Qgis-user] Action "open" to open a pdf-File

[Siki Zoltan]

Hello Peter,

this may help you:
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/29464/how-to-add-links-to-pdfs-in-a-shapefile

Zoltan

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Peter Schürch wrote:

> Hi Sylvain
> Thanks for your hint. Yes this is one possibility - but a very poor one because:
>
> -          If several users on different machines use this project file to access the data it only works if the acrobat installation path is the same everywhere... This is very unlikely...
> Also I thought (and read somewhere) that the action type "open" does not require to specify the program with which a file should be opened. Am I wrong??
> Peter
>
> Von: PIERRE Sylvain [mailto:sylvain.pierre at bas-rhin.fr]
> Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2015 13:28
> An: Peter Schürch
> Betreff: RE: Action "open" to open a pdf-File
>
> Hi,
>
> You just have to give the path to acrobat reader first (depends on your OS):
>
> "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe " [% "PDF File" %]
>
> Sylvain
>
> De : qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] De la part de Peter Schürch
> Envoyé : lundi 14 septembre 2015 10:03
> ? : Qgis Mailinglist (qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>)
> Objet : [Qgis-user] Action "open" to open a pdf-File
>
> QGIS 2.8.1-Wien / Windows 8 / MSSQL-Spatial
> Hi List
> I want to open a PDF-File from the QGIS-Object-Attribute Window (which pops up when I click with the "info-Tool" on a e.g. point-geometry).
>
> What I have done so far:
>
> -          I have a geometry-table in the MSSQL spatial database with point  geometries which works fine (displays in map, is editable etc..)
>
> -          I have an attribute which contains an absolute path to a PDF-file on our server (The path is correct and works in Explorer).
>
> -          I have defined an action of type "Open", given it a name, added the action [% "PDF File"%] referring to the attribute with the file path and added it to the action list.
>
> When I open the Object Attribute Window and right click somewhere I can select my action BUT nothing happens, not even an error message... I'm clueless.
>
> Using the Action Tool from the toolbar - same result, nothing happens, no error message.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks, best regards
> Peter Schürch
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