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I have a QGIS project that I have linked pdf's to shapefiles using a file directory field with a "attachment"widget. I have it set up so when I click on the shape in my project, the link pops up which will bring me to the relevant pdf. I tried to export this project using qgis2web, but where the link normally is, there is just a question mark.

Any way to have that link in a web map? My intent is to not put the web map online, but have it on the internal server for co-workers to use.

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  • How does the full URL look like (roughly, do not post private details)?
    – inc42
    Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 19:26
  • //server/ and then the folder in the server the pdfs are housed
    – Ian Walker
    Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 19:59
  • Does it work with file:///server/...?
    – inc42
    Commented Jan 29, 2020 at 22:49
  • file://server/... worked when i changed it to text edit :)
    – Ian Walker
    Commented Jan 31, 2020 at 12:50

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This happens because qgis2web interprets QGIS "Attachment" fields as images. If you make the fields text, rather than attachments, it will try to recognize hyperlinks and make them clickable.

One thing I've run into, though, is that links to file:// addresses often fail in browsers these days, so even if the above works - in other words, it produces the link correctly - the links still might not work in a browser. Depending on which browser you need this to work in, there might be registry hacks to allow file:// links, but that may or may not be a solution for you (ie do you have access to the registry on every machine which will view the webmap?).

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