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It would be helpful if we could attach a pdf file to the app. When we have people submitting requests that require a drawing a PDF would be a great way to do that.
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Howdy Cindy,
Thank you for sharing this feedback!
Are these documents that are pre-existing? That is, are the documents dependent on anything happening within the App itself?
If your users simply need to view the documents, a potential workaround would be to host the pre-existing PDFs on a third-party site (like DropBox or Google Drive), then include a Weblink field within your App so your users can view them from the third-party site.
If the PDFs are limited to a small number of pages, you could use the Static Image field to allow your users to view each page within the App (after converting each page into a .jpeg or .png file). Here is a Help Center topic with more details on including static images in your App.
If you are asking about the ability for mobile users to choose various documents to attach to the submission email PDF, here is a similar Feature Request from other users to upvote:
https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000178228-Attachment-library
Chip, I have a similar need for some of our employees. While using the static image field could work, when you have thousands of sites you're dealing with and thousands of PDFs that go along with those. making all of them an image and creating that many fields is just not a reasonable solution.
One idea that would be wonderful in my situation would not only being able to attach PDFs, but have them work in a way similar to reference data. That way, dealing with Multiple PDF's would become much easier.
Also, links to PDFs online have worked, but a lot of times, our guys in the field do not have service, rendering the links practically useless. Thats why some sort of in-app availability would be good.
Hi Parker,
Thanks for posting to the Community and showing continued interest in this feature request! I really love the idea of attaching PDFs with a similar framework to reference data and I will pass this along to the right people for consideration.