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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">I didn’t quite understand your answer, Mats, sorry. Which of the two discussed options are you referring to?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">But:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">One solution (for Windows) is to define a „generic action“ like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Cmd /c [% “Path” %]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">This works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"> Mats Elfström
[mailto:mats.elfstrom@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 14. September 2015 14:38<br>
<b>An:</b> Peter Schürch<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] Action "open" to open a pdf-File<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Peter!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span">Hälsning / Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span">Mats.E</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Skickat från min / Sent from my iPhone, <span class="apple-style-span">Ursäkta att jag är kortfattad / Excuse my brevity. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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14 sep 2015 kl. 13:39 skrev "Peter Schürch" <<a href="mailto:p.schuerch@meierpartner.ch">p.schuerch@meierpartner.ch</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hi Sylvain</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for your hint. Yes this is one possibility – but a very poor one because:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">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…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">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??
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Peter</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PIERRE Sylvain [<a href="mailto:sylvain.pierre@bas-rhin.fr">mailto:sylvain.pierre@bas-rhin.fr</a>]
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 14. September 20</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">15 13:28<br>
<b>An:</b> Peter Schürch<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> RE: Action "open" to open a pdf-File</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1F497D">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">You just have to give the path to acrobat reader first (depends on your OS):</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe " [% "PDF File" %]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sylvain</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">De :</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>De la part de</b> Peter Schürch<br>
<b>Envoyé :</b> lundi 14 septembre 2015 10:03<br>
<b>À :</b> Qgis Mailinglist (<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>)<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [Qgis-user] Action "open" to open a pdf-File</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">QGIS 2.8.1-Wien / Windows 8 / MSSQL-Spatial</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi List</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What I have done so far:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">I have a geometry-table in the MSSQL spatial database with point geometries which works fine (displays in map, is editable etc..)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">I have an attribute which contains an absolute path to a PDF-file on our server (The path is correct and works in Explorer).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Using the Action Tool from the toolbar – same result, nothing happens, no error message.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any ideas?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Thanks, best regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Peter Schürch</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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