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Feature Request FR-1577
Product Area Application Builder
Status CLOSED

85 Voters

Document Viewer

angellrosario Public · Sep 15 2020

Add natively on Apex a document viewer for pdf, docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.

We reviewed this idea carefully, and while it was interesting, we concluded that due to all the internal implications we need to take into account, it is unlikely to make its way into APEX.

Known Duplicates

Known duplicates

FR-2670
FR-2670 Native way for opening doc / docx or any other file format just like google docs does
FR-3835
FR-3835 Document or Image Viewer from BLOB column

Comments

Comments

  • carlos.a.maciel APEX Team OP 3.9 years ago

    This is an interesting enhancement, would like to see it but I think it's not really high priority as the browser might have already some extensions or plug-ins (if not natively supported) that can preview some of those files (pdfs for instance, in Chrome).

    Not sure if it's worth the effort, tho.

  • joeupshaw OP 3.9 years ago

    In Chrome, for example, there is essentially no code needed to do this. 

    A simple static content region will correctly preview the document so long as the browser handles it natively. I know, for example that this works (we do this already) for text/html (inside an iframe), text/plain and application/json. 

    With extensions (still no coding), you can view Word, Excel, etc.

  • robi OP 3.9 years ago

    Yes, It would be a great improvement

  • bernhard OP 3.9 years ago

    my2cents:
    doc viewer in a region, e.g.
    left region: report with docs - right region: doc viewer

    as explained here:
    http://apex-de.blogspot.com/2021/08/apex-render-pdf-in-region.html

  • dirk_strack OP 3.9 years ago

    Thumbnail images for the first page of documents and of photos would be nice too.

    By the way; You can use ctx_doc.policy_filter to produce HTML previews of office documents.

  • jayson hanes Admin OP 3.8 years ago

    The ROADMAP decision on this would be for PDF AS PAGE ITEM would be prioritized.

  • srihari.ravva APEX Team OP 3.7 years ago (edited 3.1 years ago)

    Meanwhile if you are looking to implement PDF viewer in your app, please check-out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoAl_TA0TxA

  • carlos.ramirez OP 3.1 years ago

    Which version will this feature be?