I want to create a report where users are able to click on a hyperlink that opens a pdf file in a separate window.
The pdf file is located on a network share and users have access to this share from there local computer. They are able to paste an URL to a pdf file and the document is opened.
My report is working for a pdf file on a sharepoint drive (https://xxx.sharepoint.com/folder/Documents/file.pdf), but nothing happens when linking to the network share. I have tried several formats, like \\server\folder\file.pdf, //server/foler/file.pdf, file:\\server\folder\file.pdf, HTML link and more, but I does not work.
I know that Chrome and Firefox don't allow linking to a network share from an external/hosted/live site is because of security features.
I also found after searching on the internet that a way would be to create a virtual directory in IIS on the webserver so that the file is converted to an URL. Is this the way to go or should a direct hyperlink also be possible?
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Thomas van der Meer
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