Embedd a DOC or PDF in Design Studio

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Chris12
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Does anyone know of a way which I can embedd a PDF of Word doc in the UI Designer so users can read it ... I really do not want to type all that information into a textarea ... Any help is appreciated. Chris
Ragu Raghavan
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At one site, we painted buttons on the custom forms and linked them to documents on the servers. When users clicked the buttons the documents displayed.
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Good idea ... I will give it a try
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//rpt="/servlet/Report?action=PDF&file=/"+host+"/law/print/"+usr+"/"+rptpath+"/1/"+rptname //window.open(rpt)
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David, interesting idea...have you tested it to see that it works for Word files or even PDFs that are non-Lawson print files (since I'm guessing /servlet/Report looks for report metadata--and wouldn't just blindly open anything..)?
Thanks for using the LawsonGuru.com forums!
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John, no, I assumed they wanted to open Lawson reports. My bad. I actually created the shortcut to open a Smart Report version. The syntax would be a little different - Action=LSR and you have to include &REPORT_OWNER=userid
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Hi David .... This is not a Lawson generated print file .... it is just a PDF which will be stored on the server ... Will your solution still work? Can you give me a piece of code to help out ..... Running at a standstill
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Ideally I would love to embedd a PDF into a textarea .... Not sure if that is possible