hi everyone i am new in this forum, i am looking for a way to view the pdf on the power app loaded on sharepoint without using premium connectors, som

Solved: view a PDF file from Sharepoint inside a PowerApp withouut premium connector

Hi @vincenzos1984 ,

Do you want to display PDF in PDF viewer directly rather than opening PDF documents in an external browser?

Firstly, if you want to display PDF in PDF viewer, you just need to use 'Link to item' field.

Two ways:

1)in gallery, set the arrow button's OnSelect:

Launch(ThisItem.'Link to item')

2)set PDF viewer's Document:

Gallery1.Selected.'Link to item'

But both of them will open PDF documents in an external browser.

Secondly, let me explain why the PDF file not display in PDF viewer directly.

Not all accessibility features of PDF documents are supported because the PDF viewer is still in the experimental stage.

It has many limitations, including the standards of pdf.

So when PDF viewer can not load the PDF file, it will show the text to make you open it in an external browser.

Here's an alternative solution to work around these limitations, which could make you always display the pdf in PDF viewer directly:

Include PDF documents as media resources in the app.

Please notice that you can not upload pdf file directly to powerapps.

Powerapps now only supports upload Image/Video/Audio.

So firstly, please download all the pdf files to local in your sharepoint that you want to display in powerapps.

Then rename all the PDF file with a JPG extension (ie, I renamed my PDF file to myPDF.jpg).

Then upload them to Powerapps. (File->Media->Images)

Then you could set the PDF viewer's Document to this file's name directly.

For example:

'Drawing (1)' //my pdf file

If you want to display different pdf based on which sharepoint doc item that you select, you could set PDF viewer's Document to like this:

If("1" in Gallery1.Selected.Name,
 'Drawing (1)',
 "2" in Gallery1.Selected.Name,
 'Drawing (2)',
 ....
)

// the pdf file name is 'Drawing (1)','Drawing (2)' in my test, Name filed records the pdf file name in my sharepoint doc.

You could compare the selected name to decide display which pdf.

In this situation, you will always view pdf inside your app.

Here's a doc about PDF viewer's limit:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/controls/control-pdf-viewer

Here's a issue about how to upload pdf to powerapps:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/PDF-Viewer/td-p/261638

Best regards,

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