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WebLink Open PDF Using ElectronicFile.aspx

Web Client Version 10 Administration

Updated August 23, 2023

asked on November 23, 2020

In WebLink 10.1, with the View Document Options > PDF Files unchecked, opening a PDF will open it in a new tab using ElectronicFile.aspx. In WebLink 10.2 the PDF document is opened in a new tab using DocView.aspx. Is there a way to configure WebLink 10.2 to use ElectronicFile.aspx?

Example PDF URL in WebLink 10.1:

http://localhost/WebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=213&dbid=0&repo=LFTest

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replied on December 4, 2020

Laserfiche has verified this is not an option in WebLink 10.2.

Laserfiche's response:

This change was apart of what was needed to correct problems WebLink had with opening PDF Files as noted in the release notes:

https://support.laserfiche.com/kb/1014123/list-of-changes-for-weblink-10-2

If you want, you can continue to use 10.1 if it does exactly what you want it to do. But, we don't have a way to change it for the newer version.

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replied on December 4, 2020

Shoot. Thanks for the heads up Barry.

In case anyone from Laserfiche is reading, I used the Weblink 8 pdf links in various iframes which keeps the user experience in my process nice and fluid. I'm having issues trying to get Weblink 10 links to work in my iframes (still researching an 'X-Frame-Options' error) but even if I got that working, the doc viewer within the iframes would make things more cumbersome for the users. Video containing form with iframes/example docs attached.

2020-12-04_15-00-02.mp4 (949.42 KB)

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replied on February 14, 2023

Is this option available with version 11?

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replied on August 22, 2023

Can we get an update to this question please. Many clients are requesting this feature.

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replied on August 23, 2023

Please see the following for WebLink 11.x https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/211338/HOWTO-Force-all-electronic-files-to-open-using-ElectronicFileaspx#repliestomain

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replied on November 30, 2020

Bumping this question!

We are moving from Weblink 8 to Weblink 10 and I used to be able to generate links to directly open PDFs in the browser like this:

http://server/WeblinkSite/0/doc/entryID/Electronic.aspx

I'm now trying to figure out how to mimic that behavior in the new version. I don't want the link to go to the document viewer, just the full screen pdf.

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