PDF Attachment Preview

Hover over a PDF attachment to instantly see a scrollable preview of the file, without the need to download it. The preview displays all pages of the PDF, and you can scroll through them seamlessly with your mouse.

Key features:

• Super responsive – The preview appears immediately on hover, with no delay, unlike the standard Archer tooltip.

• Full content display – All pages of the PDF are available for quick review, directly in the tooltip.

This feature enhances user experience by allowing quick, in-context access to PDF content.

A few notes and limitation:

• Each preview counts toward the download history of the attachment, since the tool will need to download the full content to render it inside the tooltip.
• This solution requires the computer to have public internet access for fetching some third party Javascript libraries from Mozilla, the company provides the PDF viewer features. As long as the computer could access the internet, this should be fine.

Requirements:

• Custom Object
• Public Internet Access required to download some open source libraries for PDF preview (Data won’t be sent anywhere)
• No Archer Control Panel access needed
• No ODA needed