topic Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience in ArcGIS Dashboards Questions

DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

RachelK — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:36:32 GMT

Hello,

I'm building a dashboard with an embedded PDF. When I open the dashboard, everything works as it should, but when I add the dashboard to a storymap or an experience, I get an error message where the PDF should be. It reads, "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." Any help with this would be appreciated.

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

SandraLuken1 — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:08:13 GMT

Hi Rachel

Can you confirm the browser that you are using? Is this just happening with Chrome and Edge?

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

RachelK — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:22:20 GMT

I'm using Chrome. This is a work project and we can only use Chrome, Edge, or Explorer. Everything works as it should when I open the dashboard on its own. The error pops up when I add the dashboard to a storymap or an experience.

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

SandraLuken1 — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:01:10 GMT

Looks like you are running into this issue https://support.esri.com/en/bugs/nimbus/QlVHLTAwMDEzMjU1NQ==. There is a suggestion listed to try a Chrome extension such as the PDF viewer.

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

RachelK — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:34:33 GMT

Thank you!

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

AndrewHeimark — Wed, 12 May 2021 14:56:31 GMT

We are having a similar issue with our Municipal Ops Dashboard (Municipal Dashboard (arcgis.com)). Every PDF link we have embedded in the dashboard has that same error in Chrome and Edge "Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension." Unfortunately, this is a publicly available dashboard so people will not know to use Firefox or to download an extension on their browser, they will just think the links are dead. We have over 100 PDF links tied to this one dashboard and I'm hopeful that this bug will continue to be worked on until there is a resolution.

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

RachelK — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:48:16 GMT

Our inelegant workaround was to convert the PDFs we needed to JPG. It's not a great solution, but because our client wanted these specific pages with this specific information, we went with it. Here's hoping for good news soon(ish) on this issue!

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

AndrewHeimark — Wed, 12 May 2021 15:54:11 GMT

Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately about 90% of the PDF links we have in this dashboard are from an outside source. I'm hoping for a resolution soon too because we may have to overhaul our entire dashboard for this one bug.

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

GISManager4 — Wed, 12 May 2021 19:33:01 GMT

I am having same issue, but when I attempt to embed a jpg the screen in blank. What was your solution?

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

RachelK — Thu, 13 May 2021 12:47:14 GMT

These are the steps we took:

we host the jpgs on our server so they have a url
we created a field called "link" in the data layer and added the jpg urls to that field
when configuring the embedded element, we pointed it at that link field

Hope this makes sense/helps!

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

ScottMoorePNW — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:12:29 GMT

Here is another option. Using an embedded viewer, like Google Drive's embedded PDF viewer may work. You can put in your pdf's like this:

https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?embedded=true&url=<your_pdf_URL>

Here is a good article that led me this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/291813/recommended-way-to-embed-pdf-in-html

Note that Adobe now has an embedded API you could look into if you don't want to use the google drive method: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/apis/pdf-embed/

Re: DB will not display PDF links when embedded in a storymap or experience

Bthomas_ilema — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:37:44 GMT

This also works for twitter feed links!