I receive maintenance reports for certain devices by being emailed a link. I click the link and get an html page in my browser. This appears to be a REST request to me.
What I want to do is create a Chrome browser action that when clicked will upload that html file to a Sharepoint Document library. I'm not sure where to get started with this. I was attempting to create an XMLHttprequest to get the file and then I was going to look at using the sharepoint rest API to upload it, but I am getting no where. I am hoping to get some recommendations on which way to go.
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The use case of this problem is very simple but i struggle to find a good solution for it.
I want to allow my users (through a webapp) fill some pdf files stored in server (pdf with forms, which begin more and more popular).
Actually, app like chrome or acrobat reader are able to fill them perfectly whe its open locally.
I already allow this functionnality for docx and xlsx files, for that i use Webdav and the custom protocols ms-word ad ms-excel. It works perfectly.
For pdf, I didnt found equivalent. Its look the mains pdf reader/editor doesn't implement this protocol. Whe we open distant file with these tools, they failed for write permission when save or they try to save the file locally) .
Another option i take a look was the new file system access api (https://web.dev/file-system-access/). But again i wasn't able to make it working properly. The main problem here is how we can edit the file.? Im able with this api to dowload the file locally and keep the filehandler to retrieve the updates, but i blocked on how i can edit the file ? like an option on the fileHandler to say "Open this file with default editor on the OS". this would be perfect. But for now to edit the file i have to manually open it on the eplorer. i can't ask my end user to do that there is too many risk they edit the wrong file.
Another option on the table is the different javascript library for editing PDF, but these last one looks all very expensive, usually very heavy on the client side, with advanced features definitively i don't need. I just want to fill the forms and retrieve the pdf completed. So i would like to avoid this option.
Last option i take a look, i already use pdf.js (from mozilla) and pdf-lib.js in my app for some drawing features. I was thinking
rendering the pdf with pdf.js
retrieve all the forms fields (id, type, size, position) of the pdf with pdf-lib
generate html input write on the top of the pdf with the informations given by pdf-lib
i let the users fill the input and click on a save button whe he finished
on the save, i edit my pdf with pdf lib, i set the value of all my forms fields by taking value of the corresponding html input, and i retrieved the pdf updated.
This solution look for me the more "feasible". But im afraid of the volume of development, on how it will render, deal with zoom, rotation, etc. i would like to not have my custom solution.
I precise my webapp target chrome so it make me crazy to not be able to use the chrome pdf viewer/editor to do what i want.
PS : i struggle to post this question on stackoverflow. the previous one was deleted witout i had precise reasons. i try to be more specific on this one, but please if its such a dumb question, please answer it
I feel your pain, this is currently not possible. Adobe acrobat can open PDFs from webdav locations (simply call acrobat.exe and pass in the WebDAV UNC and it will work) but there is no way to trigger this from the browser.
If you are able to deploy software to your customers machines, you could create a custom URL scheme to do this...
When a webpage like https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_eth is opened in the browser, we see that the browser constantly shows updated buy and sell orders. Also, in the Elements section in the chrome console, these updates are visible in the HTML tables.
Is there a way I can use a nodejs script run on my pc (so not in the browser console) to get these live html table updates from that website, without having to do a GET request every time?
If the chrome browser is able to do it, nodejs / jQuery / ajax should be able to do it as well. I tried the XMLHttpRequest nmp module but no luck yet.
It's possible they are using token authentication which means you wouldn't be able to get all the connection info you need just from their client-side code. Have you downloaded it and looked at it yet?
If you find it's not possible to call their services, there are other free products designed for webscraping. AutoHotKey is one that can open a web page and traverse its DOM. I believe it has the ability to run in the background, but don't quote me.
I am storing pdfs as chatter files in our SF org which is working well except for the fact that displaying these PDF's to the users is very challenging, especially on mobile device (eg ipad)
I have tracked down some good javascript PDF viewers which will behave fairly on well on ipad.
The challenge is delivering the pdf file from to these viewers.
Most of them require a local pdf file to view but there are some like google view which will take a url to the pdf for eg
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://urltopdf
The pdf is available via a chatter GET as follows:
https://cs2.salesforce.com/services/data/v35.0/chatter/files/{docId}/content?versionNumber=1
The problem ofcourse is that I need to pass in an authentication header. If I just pass that url to google viewer it fails because of Authentication as its not passing in the Auth header.
I tried a few things..
Built a proxy API in Salesforce which Google viewer calls, that API calls chatter and then returns the file to google docs view
PROBLEM: Custom SF APIs have a 6mb limit which means that if the pdf is bigger than 6mb it wont work!
Built a proxy API external to SF (to get around the 6mb limit) including some interesting ways to persist the authentication
PROBLEM: There are too many hops and the google viewer is not getting back the data in time...its calling the external proxy API which is then calling the chatter API which then has to return the pdf data back to the external proxy API and then back to Salesforce (ridiculous I know).
So I am stuck.....
I thought that as of Spring 13' Chatter API is accessible without any special authentication from Javascript on a VF page.
Is that true?
Will this url work without any auth header when called from javascript on a VF page? https://cs2.salesforce.com/services/data/v35.0/chatter/files/{docId}/content?versionNumber=1
It doesnt seem to work for me and definitely wont work when going via google viewer.
Would really appreciate any suggestions how to do this?
Thanks
Please dont hate me, I am trying to get some rep.
You can query the static resources for the docid and load the file by ajax request on the VF page.
After that its a matter of using data:image/png;base64 added to the base64 to add it to a canvas. You can also add a download tag to the canvas so it will download or open it in another window will give the user the browser pdf explorer.
If you use canvas be careful with Safari when you resize. If you get a really long number it will crap out on the canvas. I spent hours on that one.
I hope that helps.
I created a webpage that fetches image urls using an external api and then displays them on the page. Now i want the end user to be able to download these images all at once. Since these images do not exist on my sites server, i am looking for a way to do this via javascript/jquery.
I was able to do this in chrome using this and would like a way to prompt firefox and other browsers to do the same.
Thanks!
I'm new to Chrome extensions, and don't need a lot from an extension, so I haven't studied JS or the HTML5 Chrome API in great detail (however, I do know HTML). Other pages in Stackoverflow were not quite what I was looking for.
Basically, I am writing a program that will take HTML page source data and parse certain information out of it for use with another program. What I need to be able to do is use a Chrome extension to get the source of a web page, then save it to a local HTML file for the program to use.
I'm using most of the extension source code from this thread: Getting the source HTML of the current page from chrome extension
This works very well, except I need the source to go to a local file and not in the popup. In the popup, I'm going to add in a message like "File saved" along with a button to open the external program (if that's even possible). Any help or a step in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.