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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hi Sylvain<o:p></o:p></span></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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></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…<o:p></o:p></span></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??
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Peter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Von:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"> PIERRE
Sylvain [mailto:sylvain.pierre@bas-rhin.fr] <br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 14. September 20</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">15 13:28<br>
<b>An:</b> Peter Schürch<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> RE: Action "open" to open a pdf-File<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></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):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe " [% "PDF File" %]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sylvain<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR">De :</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:FR">
<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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">QGIS 2.8.1-Wien / Windows 8 / MSSQL-Spatial<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi List<o:p></o:p></span></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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What I have done so far:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></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..)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Using the Action Tool from the toolbar – same result, nothing happens, no error message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Thanks, best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Peter Schürch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">--<br>
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