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Sergey's avatar
Sergey
Contributor III
10 months ago

Issue in Web Content and File Viewer component to directly open a HTML file in a browser

Dear community, I currently have an html document which is located in the file Explorer under "Documents/Public" folder. I am trying to get this HTML document to be presented into the components,...
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  • Sergey's avatar
    Sergey
    7 months ago

    Hi !

    I got the message it was not considered as a "bug" ... There is a workaround though !

    The workaround would be to use File Viewer component to refer to the .html page which should be on the server. For instance, I refer to "file://localhost/c:/pathtofolderyouwant/confirmation.html" in file viewer, and I chose a "URL" type, then it opens in the application as expected !

    Regards,

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NicolasArgente
Valued Contributor
7 months ago

Thanks for your update Sergey . FYI, I contacted OS last week and they mentionned that they are aware of this "malfunction" (did you noticed, i cleverly avoided the word "bug" 😂)  They noted it is an issue that will be solved, but no idea when.

  • db_pdx's avatar
    db_pdx
    Valued Contributor
    7 months ago

    We are looking into simple static site solutions as well since "no idea when" is how must of our bug reports and enhancement requests have gone.

    If others are curious we are exploring:

    Material MkDocs

    Docusaurus

    GitBook

    Bookstackapp