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

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 2, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668 "2021-03-02T18:16:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![elvirabtny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/elvirabtny/32/23719_2.png) [@elvirabtny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/elvirabtny)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/1 "2021-03-02T18:16:38Z")

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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 ?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/2 "2021-03-02T18:34:31Z")

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> [@Open pdf in Glide](https://community.glideapps.com/t/open-pdf-in-glide/20700/19):
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![elvirabtny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/elvirabtny/32/23719_2.png) [@elvirabtny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/elvirabtny)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/3 "2021-03-02T19:08:08Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/4 "2021-03-02T19:47:27Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![elvirabtny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/elvirabtny/32/23719_2.png) [@elvirabtny](https://community.glideapps.com/u/elvirabtny)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 8:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/5 "2021-03-02T20:01:44Z")

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

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**Author:** ![NoCodeAndy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nocodeandy/32/62530_2.png) [@NoCodeAndy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/NoCodeAndy)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/in-app-pdf-web-viewer-with-google-drive-doesnt-work/23668/6 "2024-01-17T16:53:17Z")

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