The downloaded file is an HTML file and not PDF

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Posted on 19 Jun 2019 12:31:46 by Community Power Pla...

Hello everybody,

I have some problems downloading PDFs in powerapps.

I have a PDF viewer and a button to download it (in webversion it works well), but when I open the file in powerapps program it is downloaded in HTML file and I can't open it.

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I have a colum with direct links in excel to download it, for example

Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

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MagnusGöransson 424 on 19 Jun 2019 at 13:04:05

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Re: The downloaded file is an HTML file and not PDF

Hello,

You need to provide more information otherwise its impossible to help.

Where is the PDF's located? What code do you use to download? Where do you download the PDF to? Screenshots helps as well.

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Community Power Pla... on 19 Jun 2019 at 15:11:44

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Re: The downloaded file is an HTML file and not PDF

I'm sorry, it's my first time posting here

So, I have the PDFreader (pre-defined template). All of my data are from OneDrive (There is a table with all info and paths where the files are).

For Download, I'm using a column "PDFDown" with all directed links from sharepoint. Below there is a example of what are in excel table

Im using the function Download(PDFDown) and the button below the red arrow

My problem is, when I press the button to download in desktop program I got HTML file and not the PDF file.
I hope it's clearer this time.

Thank you

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v-xida-msft on 20 Jun 2019 at 05:37:54

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Re: The downloaded file is an HTML file and not PDF

Hi @Anonymous ,

Could you please share a bit more about your issue?

Do you mean that you could not save the downloaded file as PDF file when you run your app in PowerApps Desktop?

Further, have you installed PDF Client witin your PC?

Based on the issue that you mentioned, I have made a test on my side, and don't have the issue that you mentioned. The screenshot as below:

Based on the issue that you mentioned, I think this issue may be related to the PDFDown URL value. The PDFDown URL stored in your Excel table is not point to a specific PDF file (e.g. https://.../../dummy.pdf).

In other words, the PDFDown URL does not contain a specific PDF file name (e.g. dummy.pdf). If the URL you provided within the Download() function does not contain a specific PDF file name, when you download this file using PowerApps Desktop, your PC would not recognize it as PDF file.

As an alternative solution, you could consider include a speicfic PDF File name within the PDFDown column, then try your formula again, check if the issue is solved.

In addtion, please also consider use the PDFSource column value as argument of the Download function instead of PDFDown column. Modify your formula as below:

Download(ThisItem.PDFSource)

then check if the issue is slved.

Best regards,

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Community Power Pla... on 25 Jun 2019 at 11:15:22

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Re: The downloaded file is an HTML file and not PDF

Hi @v-xida-msft, sorry for the delay to reply, we had a holiday here in Brazil.

The links I used still dont work, I don't know why (I think the company should block direct access or something like that).
I tried other links and it works. Thanks for helping me.

I don't know if I can use this same post to ask more questions but, is it possible to save PDF data on my own computer(I refer to PDFreader)? So that documents do not need to be loaded whenever they are opened

Thank you again, have a great week.

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