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[SOLVED] Link MS Documents in Dashboard

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December 04, 2008, 11:35 AM
kingfish1
[SOLVED] Link MS Documents in Dashboard
Hi all,

I want to create links in the dashboard that will display MS documents such as Word, PDF, PowerPoint, or Excel ....

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steven

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HTML, Excel, and PDF


December 04, 2008, 11:37 AM
Darin Lee
In the dashboard, you can create URL blocks. That's where you should put the links to your MS documents.


Regards,

Darin


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December 04, 2008, 02:42 PM
Darin Lee
Well, that was completely incorrect - it's been a while since I set those up. What I did was to create a new URL object (or HTML page) in whatever domain is available to that Dashboard. Mine was Public so I just created and HTML page in the public domain that contains the following:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Total Incurred Cost Trend Shoulder at 12 Months
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<A target=_blank style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; Z-INDEX: 2; LEFT: 20px; WIDTH: 210px; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 20px; HEIGHT: 30px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" href="http://server_name/ibi_user_files/clm0082g.pdf">Click Here for Report
</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Then I created A LAUNCH block in the Dashboard page that contained the HTML page object from the Public domain. They click on the link that says "Click Here for Report" and it serves up the static document (which in my case is a PDF, but could be your MS document) in its own window.

Let me know if you have more questions. Sorry for the confusion.


Regards,

Darin


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WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
December 04, 2008, 09:04 PM
Waz
Spot on Darin, create the link in MRE and use it in Dashboard.

Just need to choose how to represent, an HTML page like you've done, or just show this URLs.


Waz...

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December 08, 2008, 05:16 PM
kingfish1
Dear Waz,

Do you think I need to install MS Office on the web server in order to open/view the MS documents after the links are created? What about Adobe reader for PDF files? Can I create a PowerPoint document link?

Thanks


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OS is Windows
HTML, Excel, and PDF


December 09, 2008, 01:38 AM
<JG>
There is no need for Ofice or Acrobat reader on the server.
The documents open on the client.

Powerpoint is exactly the same.
December 09, 2008, 03:36 PM
Waz
Ditto with JG, unless you are logged onto the server, and opening these files ?


Waz...

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