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How to open PDF in Dynamics 365 phone app and desktop app

Posted on by 105

I have a custom button in Dynamics 365 that creates a PDF file stream. I want to open this file from the Dynamics 365 app for phone and desktop app. I tried the following javascript which works in the browser version of Dynamics 365 on a PC but does not work in the "Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Preview)" on PC or on the Dynamics 365 app on both android and iOS.

var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(file);
window.open(fileURL);

OR

const win = window.open("", "_blank");
let html2 = '';

html2 += '<html>';
html2 += '<body style="margin:0!important">';
html2 += '<embed width="100%" height="100%" src="' + data + '" type="application/pdf" />';
html2 += '</body>';
html2 += '</html>';

setTimeout(() => {
 win.document.write(html2);
}, 0);

With browser on a PC, either one of these code will launch a new tab with the PDF file loaded but on android/ios app there is nothing happen and with the "Dynamics 365 (Preview)" app on Windows I get the message below with no options to choose a browser or a pdf viewer.

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  • Kirk T Profile Picture
    Kirk T 105 on at
    RE: How to open PDF in Dynamics 365 phone app and desktop app

    I did not try the suggested code but what works for me is to use the built-in client-api for Dynamics 365 openFile docs.microsoft.com/.../openfile

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: How to open PDF in Dynamics 365 phone app and desktop app

    Hi Kirk T,

    You could try the code in the following post:

    stackoverflow.com/.../open-or-download-pdf-file-for-printing-from-iphone-using-js

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