In App PDF Web viewer with Google Drive doesn't work

[elvirabtny]

Hi ! I allowed every users that have the PDF link from my Google Drive base to read the document and I tried to create a web view in my Glide App, but it doesn’t work ! Any advise ?

[Jeff_Hager]

Open pdf in Glide

Try something like this. It works for me, a lot of the time, but sometimes I have issue with it opening the PDF and I have to try a second or third time before it finally opens… There might be other services out there where you could wrap the pdf url with the service url, but I haven’t looked.

[elvirabtny]

Thanks ! I’ll try it ! But how to do this with many files that have hundreds of pages each ?

[Jeff_Hager]

Number of pages shouldn’t matter. I just create a template column that dynamically builds each viewer url that’s used in a webview component.

I should add, that if you are having issues with files stored in google drive, make sure that they a publicly shared files. Also google drive isn’t great for hosting files. Sometimes people bhave problems and it’s better to host file with glide instead.

[elvirabtny]

Ok ! I’ll try it ! Thank you so much ! This is really helping me !