Use of PDF in MDM

Experts,
I am working on PDF in MDM ,I had some Idea how to load the PDF and and link the main table record while importing from Import Manager.My question here is when I click on the pdf or link for PDF in Data manager,will it bring all the record details into PDF .If this is true statement please let me know if not please let me know how to do it and also let me know ,If this is possible.
Thanks,
Mamatha

Yes ,When I click on the PDF will the Data record to which PDF is linked will be displayed in the pdf.
Thanks,
Mamatha

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Hi Gurus,
I have imported PDF into MDM successfully. Unfortunately when i browse thru the MDM catalog, i able to see a whole string of file link information and cannot view the PDF.
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Many thanks,
GG

Hi Adrivit,
Unfortunately I do not agree with your last suggestion i.e. changing the field type/length. Below are my thoughts:
1. Once the field is defined and saved in MDM then in most of the cases system doesn't allow to update the Field type. Yes, for some field types it allows, but very minimal options will be available. This field is defined as "Text" field with 250 characters. By design, MDM System won't allow you to change this field to any other field type. Yes, MDM will allow you to change it to "text normalized", but that won't help in this case, as text normalized also got same length restriction.
2. Maximum length restriction of a text field is 333 characters.
3. In SRM-MDM Catalog scenario, I do not consider it a best practice to change the standard fields/tables, especially when we don't know impact of the change on standard SRM-MDM Search UI and Catalog UI applications.
Glen,
if your URLs are too long then I can think of only two ways:
1. Copy your PDF from old location to new location (if it shortens the Path URL)
OR
2. Use some free URL generators to shorten the long URLs.
In case none of above solution is feasible for you, then Please check with SAP on this before making any change in the repository.
-Shiv

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If you are trying to load pdf files, this forum mentions how to do it using the Data Manager. Re: Uploading PDF in Data Manager
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when I upload the PDF in MDM data manager, the system error log is :
Unable to open Adobe Acrobat.
See your administrator about installing Adobe Acrobat.
But, when I upload the image, the status is success..
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thanks & Best Regards,

Hi,
Can you open the PDF without any error? Is Adobe Acrobat installed on the server where the repository is loaded?
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jason

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Display only 1 record using uploaded PDF document from 3rdparty Website

Hi,
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I'm trying to create my first BI publisher report using a PDF document from 3rd party website. I want to populate the name from EMP table to one of the fields in the PDF doc.
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Version of BI and Adobe
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Adobe Acrobat X Version 10.1.4

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