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…

Accessing PDF's from a Database Table in Perspective

Ignition Early Access

pturmel December 5, 2023, 1:28pm 7

The way to avoid buying the WebDev module for this combination is to use my free Blob Server. (:

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