URL to view a document stored in Appian

What file extension is your document?  Appian has all the limitations of your browser.  So if Chrome won't display a .doc file inline, how can you expect Appian to MAKE Chrome do it?  If there's an extension you can install on Chrome that WILL make Chrome do it, then the Appian side of the equation should work too.

And why are you using a URL?  Why aren't you using the Appian specific document ID?  If the use case is compelling enough, let's work through getting it to work properly, but if there's no real use case, then "Or just don't!"

 David, I want to send the document urls to external system for the users to view.  So I am using the url like "/suite/doc/<docId>".  I am actually passing the document id to the url.  Can the document be viewed on the same page?

Brinda said:

I want to send the document urls to external system for the users to view.  So I am using the url like "/suite/doc/<docId>".

If those external users are not users within their Appian system, I have no expectation that those URLs would work for them anyway.  As far as I know, links to internal documents require a viewer to authenticate into Appian 100%.

They are basic users of Appian Mike. Can I use document viewer field in a form which will be displayed in a site, so that I can pass doc id to the form and send the respective urls to the external system through web api? The external users can be given viewer rights to the site and the document folder, so that when they click the link in the external system it will open the url of the site with the respective document and the users can view the document on the same page. Am I right? Will it work?

Something like that might work - just note that the Document Viewer field only works with particular document formats (pdf and a few others).  Thus far there is no direct way to do in-form previews for things like word, excel, or HTML files, despite begging Appian to make it happen somehow.  A workaround that works in perhaps a narrow majority of cases is to create a temporary PDF version of a document just long enough to show it to a user via the document viewer field.

Something like that might work - just note that the Document Viewer field only works with particular document formats (pdf and a few others).  Thus far there is no direct way to do in-form previews for things like word, excel, or HTML files, despite begging Appian to make it happen somehow.  A workaround that works in perhaps a narrow majority of cases is to create a temporary PDF version of a document just long enough to show it to a user via the document viewer field.

I think it will work for images files as well. Am I right?

That's what the image field is for, basically -- the code would look something like this:

Thank you. I will try and let you know.