Directly opening a PDF file from PowerApp

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Ive got an App based on a SP List which contains a PDF file and I want to open that file directly through the app

Ive set up a gallery based on a list of materials and suppliers.

In the SP list there is a colum called Attachements and when I add the DocumentPDF icon to my gallery I want it to open the attachement in the sharepointlist based on ItemSelected

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uwenagel 382 on at

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You may think of a flow that is started by a button that gets the attachment of the item selected and saves it to a predefined place in a SharePoint library. Of course you have to pass the ID of the selected item to the flow.

You could then show the file with Launch( Url to saved document ) which opens the PDF in the standard application.

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You can also Launch the attachment directly. The Url would be the following:

https://YourDomainName.sharepoint.com/sites/YourSiteName/lists/YourListName/Attachments/ListItemID/AttachmentFileName

If you construct that Url from the selected item you could put that string into the Launch function (triggered by a button or appropriate) which then opens the PDF in the standard application.

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RvdHeijden 602 on at

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@uwenagel thanks for your help so far

My problem is that the PDF file is an attachement which I must download first in order to open it, I can't directly open it from the list. I've tried to get an URL from it but then it returns a location within my download folder c:/Users/myname/downloads/303493%20 ......

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You do not have to download it first! Look to my previous post. You can construct the Url with your site name, your list name and the ID directly to the attachment file as shown before.

Launch() will then open the file directly.

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RvdHeijden 602 on at

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How do you integrate the ListItemID into the URL ?

Launch("https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/company/projects/FttH/Lists/Materiaallijst/Attachments/thisitem.id/attachementfilename")

I understand what you are trying to do but can you help out with the last part ?

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Each item in the list has an ID. If you don't see it in the view you may have to include it there. Also it is normally available in the record selected in the gallery when you have a list as the source of the gallery (or a collection based on the list).

So you should do the following:

Launch("https://company.sharepoint.com/sites/company/projects/FttH/Lists/Materiaallijst/Attachments/" & ThisItem.ID & "/attachementfilename").

Of course, you have to know the file name of the attached file. If not you may first start a flow that is returning the name of the file and include it in the call.

Please check your Url as well as it contains the following part:

.../sites/company/projects/FttH/...

From that it is not clear to me what your site name is. I assume it is a projects site then the Url part would be the following I guess:

.../projects/FttH/...

Hope this helps.

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