DFS 6.5 - How to open a respository (pdf) document in the browser (outside of Webtop, Taskspace)

I have a DFS .NET web application that creates a list of documents in the repository. Each document is hyperlinked pdf that I'd like to open up in the browser using Adobe Reader, outside of Webtop, Taskspace or a WDK application. Is this possible? I have what I believe to be the necessary querystring params - username, a user ticket, repository name - but the documentation seems to imply you need to provide an appname, which is the name of a documentum/WDK application. What is the correct syntax to construct the url?

Any help (sample code) is appreciated.

Thanks.

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zhou_simonq

i cannot understand it well. maybe you can use UCF as transfer mode and set PostTransferAction. Pls refer to DFS dev guide for such info.

- simon

ghs

I don't know how much clearer I can be: My application is a .NET Web-based application that uses DFS and the .NET productivity layer. It allows the user to search the repository for documents based on an extensive list of filters. The user is restricted to searching only those docments to which he has read access. When the results of the search are returned, I would like each document name to be a hyperlink. When the user selects a document, I would like to download a local copy of the document and either open that document in the browser (for example, a pdf in Acrobat Reader) or in a client viewer that I will build. The only way I have found to construct the url in the DFS sdk requires the objectid, username, a user ticket, and a wdk appname (I believe this is called a virtual url). I don't want to open the doucment in Webtop, Taskspace or another wdk application; that is the problem I'm running into.

Is there a way to open a local copy of the document directly in the browser (or a non-wdk based, client viewer that I would build)?

zhou_simonq

objectservice.get() return datapackage.

datapackage.getdataobjects().get(i).getcontents().get(j) returns UrlContent if ACS is enabled.

urlcontent.getasfile() to download the content and you can get the local path. launch it with your customized application.

WangTodd

If I understand correctly,you can specify an action to perform on the client after an operation that transfers content using
the setPostTransferAction method of ContentProfile. This feature is available only if the content is transferred using the UCF transfer mode.

The setPostTransferAction method takes a String argument,which can have any of the values like

dfs:view

dfs:edit

dfs:edit?app=_EXE_

You can take a look at DFS dev guide and try this approach in your .NET code.