topic Re: WebView hyperlinks in ArcGIS AppStudio Questions

WebView hyperlinks

RyanGay — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:37:35 GMT

I have incorporated the WebView into my app to view other reference pages, but I have a couple of issues. One is the fact that hyperlinks will not work and a user cannot download files from this webview. What is the fix for this?

Re: WebView hyperlinks

TrevorFrame — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 23:11:32 GMT

Hi @RyanGay ,

There is no direct way of downloading files using the WebView component. In order to download files you can use the NetworkRequest component within the AppFramework. This allows for transfer of data and can be used to download files. A good example of this can be seen in the Map Viewer template MapViewer/controls/MmpkManager.qml file. If you still want this done via the WebView component, you can set a signal handler onUrlChanged and set some conditional logic so if it recognizes the url that's supposed to download the file, you can call the network request from there.

Hope this helps.

-Trevor

Re: WebView hyperlinks

RyanGay — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:17:34 GMT

@TrevorFrame thanks for the info. Would using the Qt WebEngine instead of WebView work as well?

Re: WebView hyperlinks

TrevorFrame — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:11:37 GMT

You can use the WebEngineView component as well.