I'm pretty new to using sharepoint and I know it has a lot of potential but I cannot seem to find an answer.
Right now at my work we upload to sharepoint by printing items sticking a bar code on it and sending it to the specific email through the printer. This causes us to use a lot of paper which we don't necessarily need to use.
I'm wondering if there would be a way to instead create a PDF out of some document like an invoice. Attach the bar code as a cover sheet to that PDF, upload that to something like a drive on the network which then uploads the individual PDF's the sharepoint allowing us to skip the scanning process.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, we don't have a expert in share point anymore and neither does my school.
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I have a Notes app that was designed for the browser, not the client. It allowed upload of files into the documents, so nearly all the documents have files. The files are stored in the NSF as $FILE and displayed in the documents as links.
I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro to create PDFs from the documents and need to include the file attachments within the PDFs, however the PDFs just include links to the files, not the attachments. Can I write an agent to run against the documents to get those files and embed them within the documents? When I view those documents through the client, I see all of the HTML etc. and then at the bottom of the document, the file attachments appear. When I view these same documents in the browser, the file attachments do not appear. If I could merely ensure that they are there, then when running the PDF generator in Acrobat Pro, they would be included in the PDFs and executable.
I am really stuck here, with no other way to 'archive' this notes database with all the data intact.
Thanks in advance for any insights!!
Ginni
There is a commercial product from Swing Software that does this. I hear that it's quite good, but I've never used it. Let me explain why...
The way I usually end up doing this is just quick-and-dirty. I write an agent to export the files, using the document UNID as part of the filename. The same agent exports all the data fields from the document into a CSV file, and I add a column with the filename of the extracted attachment. In your case, I would add two columns -- one for the extracted attachment(s), and one for the generated PDF. The CSV serves as an index for the exported data. It can be imported into something more friendly, or just left as-is and brought up in Excel, depending on the customer's usage requirements and available systems. I've recommended Swing Software's product and offered to explore other ideas for developing code (e.g., using wkhtmltopdf for Domino web apps to capture a WYSIWYG rendering based on an HTML crawl) for PDF rendering of Notes documents for a couple of clients, but none of them have justified the cost that would be involved in buying licenses and/or writing the code. Quick and dirty always seems to win, even when there are retention and eDiscovery considerations taken into account.
I've been working on perfecting a couple of my google sheets for work. I need to share it with my coworkers, but I want to find a way to protect my hard work from being copied and repurposed by others.
They need to have edit access, so that eliminates "Disable options to down, print, and copy for commenters and viewers".'
I need to make sure this document doesn't get duplicated a dozen times by everyone the moment I provide them all with edit access. Any advice?
For any of those coming back to this feed, I've created a google script that if someone tries to make a copy of my document, the moment they open their doc, the entire sheet gets wiped (what I like to call 'self destruct').
So it is possible, despite the entire internet and google themselves saying it's not.
I deal with pdfs a lot but when I try to download them it usually doesn't contain the actual title of the pdf/paper so I'll have to rename it most of the times, which I find is annoying.
In many cases URL doesn't have the title of the pdf, so I guess this has to be extracted by processing the content of the pdf. And it needs to be done on the client side, i.e., for e.g., as a browser plugin?
Is there a way that I can get the title when I'm downloading pdfs over the web via scripting or someting?
That most likely won't work and here is why.
You would have to write some incredibly dynamic code to fetch some sort of title for the PDF. You would have to have code that would scan a website, somehow pick out a title, then fire off a request to code running on your computer to change the name.
It would be somewhat inconvenient because you would always have to have the script run on your computer (likely always having terminal open).
Your code would be highly prone to error. If your website script messed up, you could accidentally name the PDF incorrectly and then not be able to find it based on how inaccurate the name is.
For now, I would suggest dealing with the pain of editing the PDF name manually.
Was wondering if anyone could help me out. I have written a report in SSRS 2008. I would like to add a button or a link on the page that will email the currently run report.
I know I can do this in subscription and set a schedule for this however the data needs to be checked before an email can be sent out.
Thanks for taking a look
Rusty
Essentially what you want to do is put a mailto link on the page that generates an email when the user clicks on it. There is a component of the mailto link which will include an attachment. However, the attachment must be a locally housed file, it cannot be stored at a web address. See more here.
If the report you are running does not require many resources, you can set up a subscription which will, on a scheduled basis (say every 5 minutes), write the report to a file on a shared drive. Therefore, the report is constantly being written and updated at a local path. Then, you should be able to use the "&attachment=" portion of the mailto link to refer to this subscription-generated file sitting somewhere on a shared drive. This might not be a good option for you if you're counting on up-to-the-second data in this report you're generating. Then again, if you're having the report manually reviewed by human eyes, then that's probably not too much of an issue.
If you pursue this solution, it will be important to keep in mind that whatever shared drive you have your subscription write the file to will need to be accessible by anyone that will be clicking on that mailto link. It's not sufficient for you to have access to it. When that mailto link is clicked, it will use Windows authentication (or authentication from whatever system you're using) to connect to that shared drive and retrieve the file.
Best of luck!
I have a problem about PDF file encryption using php.
Case: Let's say I have a local system (web based) to upload and download files, such as 4sh*red (dot) com, but it just allows PDF file. A user sign up and login to download the PDF files using his or her own personal computer. After users downloaded a PDF file from my system, the file can be viewed only on computer where they downloaded the file. But, if another user copy it (I mean: downloaded PDF file) to another computer, the file can't be viewed on that computer.
Note: I don't mean here about protecting the PDF files using password because nowadays there are a lot of softwares used to remove PDF's password protection. But, the file can't be viewed at all if copied to another computer.
Can we do that in php? If yes, do you know any algorithm to solve the case?
I really appreciate your response or answers.
Thank you.
The PDF format is an open format by Adobe. This means there are a lot of programs out there that can read it and quite same that can modify it.
If you write your own program and add some stuff to the PDF, then maybe you can do this.
Another question is - why don't you just make the document visible in the web browser to the user? Of course there's still going to be a way around for savvy users to get it, but most noobs wouldn't know how and you can easily close the simplest blocks (like right click / save).
What maybe interesting to do is what a lot of companies are doing with videos nowadays: you can dynamically add some hidden or visible 'info' to a PDF that identifies who you sent it to. In that way, if the PDF shows up somewhere else - you know who spread it.... Again - PDF is an open format, so anyone can always erase whatever you write in the main contents, so you'd have to add a hidden image to the content or something.