Is the PDF viewer component broken? I have yet to find a single PDF that works and doesn't say "PDF could not be loaded"

[lmonroe]

Basically the subject, why does this never work?

The PDF is literally a single page Word document that I saved as PDF. I have tried quotes that I have, collateral from marketing, random PDFs downloaded online, etc. It shows that NASA sample or whatever one, but I have never found a PDF that actually works here.

Is there another way to embed a PDF file or is this it? Even this sample doesn't work, it's literally called "a simple pdf sample" and it's only text https://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf This one also, it's three words! https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf neither work they all just say PDF could not be displayed.

[Tess]

Hi @lmonroe I am seeing CORS errors with the provided examples

To avoid these errors, I recommend putting the pdf url in a RestQuery & referencing the returned base64 in your pdf component:

[Tess]

This comes up pretty often, so I'm requesting to get this added to our docs!

[Samuel_me]

I am honestly having the exact same problem. i have even gone ahead to remove all possible permission requirements that might bbe restricting file access on firebase. Yet, the famous pdf could not be loaded# still stays unmoved!! Please see my screenshots

@Tess , thank you for your suggestion to use the RESTQuery option. but, how do i then make the link dynamic so that depending on what row is choosen from my table, a different file is read?

Like now, how do i make the GET filed within the REST query dynamic?

[Tess]

Hi @Samuel_me Thanks for reaching out! You can put {{}} in the rest query url field. It would look something like {{table1.selectedRow.gcsLink}} where gcsLink is replaced with the column name for your table: