Can FreshDesk open the attachment in the browser instead of downloading it for .pdf files?
I tried Chrome and Edge. If the attachment is .txt or .jpg file, it will display it in a new tab. If it behaves differently depending on the file types, what/where is the setting manages this behavior?
The reason why I want open the attachment in the browser is that I hope to print directly from the browser instead of download-open-print.
Best answer by julia.a
Here’s the Idea for you all to upvote:
+9Hello
At the moment, we only have the option of downloading PDF attachments and viewing it then from the browser. Unfortunately, we would not be able to customize this behavior but your feedback is truly valid and I think it’ll be worth to raise this as an idea so that other community members can also vote for this and bring attention to our product team.
Cheers,
It looks like this would be a pretty simple issue to resolve. Chrome already has the ability to view PDF files without downloading them. To me it looks like the issue lies in the link when you click on the file. For instance I am working a ticket right now that has a pdf file attached as an account request form. When i hover over the icon the link comes up as https://schoolname.freshservice.com/helpdesk/attachments/18014172556, if the link was changed directly to https://schoolname.freshservice.com/helpdesk/attachments/filename.pdf then chrome would allow you to view the file in the browser instead of being forced to download every file you click on.
I know we used to be able to do this, so why the change? It’s very inconvenient when you are going through many tickets every day.
In my instance, I primarily am using Chrome with Freshdesk.
Chrome has no problem opening PDFs (other other types of files) in a new browser tab.
Can’t see why FD can’t make it happen.
Major pain having to save it to filesystem then open from there.
Pretty archaic.
is any update on this? I think Freshdesk should prioritize this simple change, downloading files into agent machine could potentially lead to GPDR compliance issue.
+1I’m having more and more of my team asking why this simple feature of viewing attachments is not a function that Freshdesk supports.
This thred is now over a year old and we the community are asking for this why has it not been something that the platform provides when its a simple feature that any web-based system is able to do, ie email, other SaaS platforms & ticketing systems.
+8Here’s the Idea for you all to upvote:
We looked into this and published a (paid) app for previewing PDFs in tickets on the Freshworks app marketplace.
It’s not ideal (PDF attachments are listed separately in the sidebar) but it does the job for us.
Hope it can be useful for someone else until it’s addressed in the core product
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