Is it possible to open an XLS file from a workspace?

With a view to reinforcing the role of INFOS OS Portal and workspaces as a central point for a user's activities, do you think it would be possible to manage links to the office files the user uses most often?

For example, some Excel files that could be opened from the Infor platform by clicking on a sort of bookmark?

I haven't found a way of doing this while exploring the options I knew about at my level.

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Rene Bottern

Hi Denis,
are you saying that you would you like to see available Office Documents in a Widget on the Dashboard, and then be able to open them just by clicking them from there?

Sounds like creating a Widget in Mongoose for this purpose could be an alternative in that case.
Don't know of a Standard Widget available for this purpose though.

If I'm understanding this correct, the trick is that your documents is, most likely, somewhere on one of your server on your Local Network OR in another location (i.e. Azure), but I could be wrong.

Denis MARETTE

Hi Rene,

Yes - you've understood my question correctly, with all the limitations that entails (in particular, the fact that the files exist locally on the user's workstation or on a shared file server).

Indeed, I haven't found what I was looking for among the existing widgets.
But I wanted to make sure I hadn't missed a trick.

However, I felt that the subject deserved to be raised because, for a user, it would be a kind of continuity of user experience.

Rene Bottern

Yes, it would be a 'nice' Widget to have.

The main problem is most likely that you might want to open Files of your own local Computer.
If it was just on Network Drives, it would probably be easier to create a solution.

That said, since it is a Browser session, it should definitely be possible, but might be possible to code using SDK instead of Mongoose, since it would have to be the Browser Session accessing your file(s), not a Server in the Cloud.

I think it's something worth giving some thought for sure.

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