I know with Perspective, the PDF Viewer will only show PDF’s where there’s a web path because of how a web browser works. What I wanted to see is if there’s a way, and if so, what the best practice is to look at PDF’s, images, etc. that are stored in MSSQL database tables. Currently in Vision, we …

The “right” way to do this in a web-based way would be to use the webdev module - you can construct a Python endpoint that fetches the bytes from your database and returns them - that’s exactly how the demo project displays an Ignition report: https://demo.ia.io/data/perspective/client/OnlineDemo/fe…

Hi, thanks for the content in this thread, it helped me sort out a solution for my needs. Per the recommendation I used the webdev module and created a python http GET resource that fetches the pdf blob data, and returns it like so: query = ‘some query string’ data = system.db.runScalarPrepQuery(…

@c-w-t Thanks for sharing that. I like the i-Frame works great. I noticed when downloading from FF vs Chrome the suggested filename differs, Is there a way to suggest a filename when users prompt to download? @paul-griffith maybe this should be moved to a new post? I just realized this is old and …

Hi Paul, Is there any other way like using Jython to pass the bytes stream of a pdf to the Perspective PDF viewer? Like what you guys did in Report Viewr?

The way to avoid buying the WebDev module for this combination is to use my free Blob Server. (: [image] Automation Professionals' Blob Server Module 3rd Party Modules Automation Professionals is pleased to announce an alpha release of its new Blob Server Module. Availab…

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