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

[Peter Schürch]

I didn’t quite understand your answer, Mats, sorry. Which of the two discussed options are you referring to?
But:
One solution (for Windows) is to define a „generic action“ like this:
Cmd /c [% “Path” %]
This works.
But the original question why the type “Open” doesn’t seem to work remains mysterious to me… It is still not clear to me how this type should be used. If one needs to specify the software why have fifth type of actions?

Peter

Von: Mats Elfström [mailto:mats.elfstrom at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Montag, 14. September 2015 14:38
An: Peter Schürch
Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] Action "open" to open a pdf-File

Hi Peter!
Not if Qgis uses the file type association, which if properly made should call on Acrobat reader to open the file regardless of where Acrobat is installed.
Hälsning / Regards
Mats.E


Skickat från min / Sent from my iPhone, Ursäkta att jag är kortfattad / Excuse my brevity.

14 sep 2015 kl. 13:39 skrev "Peter Schürch" <p.schuerch at meierpartner.ch<mailto:p.schuerch at meierpartner.ch>>:
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

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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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