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Create a URL to a Weblink Document in a PDF

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Updated August 6, 2015

asked on August 3, 2015

I need to create an agenda as a PDF that will reference folders within Laserfiche. I have a workflow that will find a specific folder in Laserfiche and using the Generate Weblink URLs I am able to create a token that contains the URL to the folder. I am assigning this value to a template field so that I can push that URL to a PDF file. Everything works great except when I open the PDF the URL is not a hyperlink - it's just the text of the URL. Is there a way to make this a link that the user could follow and open the folder in Weblink?

Thanks!

Sandy

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replied on August 5, 2015

The Fill PDF activity can flatten it for you if you don't need it editable past that point.

Your other solution would work too.

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replied on August 6, 2015

That's my answer! Thanks!

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replied on August 3, 2015

Its not possible because its a fillable field when it writes to a PDF. So when you click on that field, it will allow you to type instead of launching the hyperlink. The only way to get it as a hyperlink is inserting it into a body of an email activity.

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replied on August 4, 2015

Thank-you

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replied on August 4, 2015

Depending on what the point of the PDF form is, you could flatten it by merging the form data into the image to make it a regular PDF. Adobe Reader should render the URL as clickable link at that point.

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replied on August 5, 2015

Thanks Miruna but I don't think this will help since I can't flatten it without saving it with the full version of Adobe. The idea behind this is that the document would serve as a meeting agenda. Each item on the agenda would be a URL back to the folder that contains all of the documents for review.

I am thinking of using the email option. If I used a search to find all of the folders with a specific meeting date, could I do a "for each value" found generate the Weblink URL and put it into a token and then insert all of the tokens into an email? So if there were 5 folders the email would have all 5 listed one after the other in a single email. Would that work?

Thanks

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replied on August 5, 2015

The Fill PDF activity can flatten it for you if you don't need it editable past that point.

Your other solution would work too.

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replied on August 6, 2015

Oh -OK I'll try that. Thanks

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replied on August 6, 2015

That's my answer! Thanks!

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