# Open PDF via button

**URL:** <https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056>\
**Category:** Ask the Community\
**Created:** [August 15, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056 "2022-08-15T16:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harry\_Roper](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/harry_roper/32/41039_2.png) [@Harry\_Roper](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Harry_Roper)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/1 "2022-08-15T16:27:33Z")

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Hey all,

I’m trying to make the UX of my client portal a bit easier. Part of that is having buttons to open stuff quickly for them.

When you click a PDF in a table it opens the preview of it nice and easy. However I cant seem to find a formula that will allow me to open it via a button.

Activate doesnt work. Openwindow just opens a window with the files name as a URL.

Is there an easier solution here?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/original/3X/f/6/f6ac9f39af65a8c606c3a3f1915c228cc7c9f866.png)

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**Author:** ![Jasmine\_B](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/jasmine_b/32/26214_2.png) [@Jasmine\_B](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Jasmine_B)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 6:20pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/2 "2022-08-17T18:20:26Z")

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Hey there! Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a great way to do this right now, and using that openwindow formula would be my suggested workaround. I can totally see how useful this would be though so I can confirm we’ve gone ahead and filed this as a feature request in the meantime 😄

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**Author:** ![anon66169817](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@anon66169817](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/anon66169817)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/3 "2022-08-18T13:40:14Z")

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Great to hear that @Jasmine_B !

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**Author:** ![Harry\_Roper](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/harry_roper/32/41039_2.png) [@Harry\_Roper](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Harry_Roper)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/4 "2022-08-18T13:57:57Z")

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Thank you Jasmine for your reply and filing!

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**Author:** ![Max\_OBrien](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/max_obrien/32/49285_2.png) [@Max\_OBrien](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Max_OBrien)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/5 "2022-08-20T10:16:36Z")

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hey @Paul_Danyliuk, i believe Imigx has a PDF rendering feature, could this be combined with a button to provide what is needed here ?

max

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/system/32/24484_2.png) [@system](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 10:16am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/open-pdf-via-button/33056/6 "2022-08-23T10:16:52Z")

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