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I want an attribute in a shapefile named "Link" to add.

The works are all fine but then I would like to add a link in my directory.

This link accesses a PDF. Now, this PDF is not shown.

Is there any other solution or there is nothing to be done?

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user8839
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    Where is the target of the link? On a network or on a local file system? How will the link be used, by clicking once on inspection, or is it simply a record which will be used in another system? There are a lot of case specific issues to this question which are outside of gis/QGIS. – Willy Jul 13 '12 at 10:40
  • The target of the link is stored on a local server. The connection is to simply display the PDF later. – user8839 Jul 16 '12 at 14:21

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Three possibilities tested on Windws XP:

  • create a new action of Type "Generic", action: cmd /c [% "url" %] where path is a field containg the full pathname: D:\Download\test.pdf

  • create a new action of Type "Windows", action: "C:\Programme\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "[% "path" %]" where path is a field containg the full pathname: D:\Download\test.pdf

  • install apache for your local PC, point localhost to the root of D:\ In Qgis, action of type "Open", action: http://[% "url" %] where url is a field with the path in format localhost/download/test.pdf

Some programming languages allow files to be accessed by file://D:/, but this does not work here.

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  • how to open file location in network \fileserver\filefolder\file1.xls I tried all but couldn't. – kinkajou Sep 07 '12 at 07:21
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    See my answer on http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/32961/adding-hotlink-in-qgis/32983#32983 – AndreJ Sep 07 '12 at 11:19
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From the answer of Andre Joost, I found this video, hope it could help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbtat3AsBs

Added: another video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUxkddOP3BQ&feature=related

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