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Best option to link to a PDF
have a custom letter which is sent out to a user upon approval of a step. Right now an instructional PDF is on the doc, we are saving the approval notices and having this same doc in each letter is starting to flood our inbox. I want to have a link to the doc so it does not have to be embedded.
I have tried placing the doc on a page and setting up a hot spot link to the page, but although it works locally it is giving the error below when sent to the user. What is a good alternative here?
"Unable to display element, database does not contain design element"
I have tried placing the doc on a page and setting up a hot spot link to the page, but although it works locally it is giving the error below when sent to the user. What is a good alternative here?
"Unable to display element, database does not contain design element"
Other options are to put it in any of he great Notes Document databases.
Plenty of Doc lirary templates on the Notes server.
Simply create the database, give read access to everyone, open a blank doc and put the PDF on it, and then save it and send out the doc link to that specific doc.
Will work for all Notes users, and no changes needed on the server.
I hope this helps !
Plenty of Doc lirary templates on the Notes server.
Simply create the database, give read access to everyone, open a blank doc and put the PDF on it, and then save it and send out the doc link to that specific doc.
Will work for all Notes users, and no changes needed on the server.
I hope this helps !
I agree with SysExpert. I had the same project in the past to link an image to a main document. I did it by storing the UNID of the doc with image in the main doc and created a button to open the image using the stored UNID.
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So there is no simple way to have it link to something within the same DB? I may go with posting it on our training website instead.
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IIs it because I put this on page and not on a doc that it would not work?
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THink I will use the doclink to a hidden record method. Thanks for all the help.
Then create a hyperlink to the file in the following format
http://servername.domain.com/<path relative to html directory>/filename.pdf
or if you just put it in the root of the html directory then
http://servername.domain.com/filename.pdf