Button Formula Error - Open PDF button

[Grayson_Goodacre]

Hi guys, I’m new to coda

I am organising a reading list table with PDF files in them and I would like to make a button that Opens the file.

Below is the code I wrote, but it keeps showing “Unexpected value” error.

thisRow.FileSwitchIf(pdf.IsNotBlank(),"open PDF", )

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and if they know the correct code to be able to open the PDF.

[Jannis]

Hi @Grayson_Goodacre and welcome to the Coda Community.

I did a little research and found this topic where this problem has already been solved.

Button to open pdf file?

hello. I have a file column with i attach a pdf file then i have another column with parsejson pdfURL to display it to another canvas column. However sometimes the display is not working. So i was thinking to have button column to open PDF file like in the first photo (when i click the file directly, it will display pdf, but i want to use button instead of clicking at the file) is there any way to do this? or any formula for the button [1699104134802] [1699104117221]

Please take a look and let me know if it fits your use case.

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Sincerely
Jannis