arcgis-10.2arcgis-desktoparcmapbrowser
I have a field with a URL to a PDF. The field is used for hotlinking. When I use the hotlink tool or click on the link in the Identify window, the link opens in my default browser (Chrome), but when I click the link in the HTML popup it opens in Internet Explorer.
Is there a way to get it to open in the default browser instead? Having it open in IE is rather annoying since it does not handle opening PDF files very gracefully.
Expanded answer based on @petr k.'s accepted answer.
The example in the ESRI forum is using a URL, but I was able to knock out the src attribute and set the height to 0 in order to control my width: <iframe width="500" height="0"></iframe> In my case, I'm not concerned about the height of the window.
In ArcGIS 10, I selected the "As a formatted page based on an XSL template" and then Load-->Load default template to get something to tweak.
In the XSL find the <body> and <table> tags:
<body style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;overflow:auto;background:#FFFFFF;">
<table style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,Times;font-size:12px;text-align:left;width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;padding:3px 3px 3px 3px">
...and put the <iframe width="500" height="0"></iframe> in between them:
You are on the right track with XLS, however when working with YouTube videos in HTML you need to use an <iframe> to display the video. The <object> and <embed> tag combination only works with video that have not been encode through YouTube or other video service, for example: mp4, Adobe Flash, or ogg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncOvjE4Fko to https://www.youtube.com/embed/lncOvjE4FkoThis will allow the video to be played natively in the popup. ?autoplay=1 to the end of the URL.<object width="425" height="355">...</object> and put in the following: <iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="**URL_GOES_HERE**" frameborder="0"></iframe>
The width and height can be change to be what ever works best for your size of popup, if you use 100% for both height and width it will auto size to window size.
Now when you open the popup the <iframe> will load the video and you should see the play button or if you added the ?autoplay=1 parameter in the URL it will start playing automatically.
Here is your code with the field name VIDEO check in the XLS template.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<xsl:variable name="ignoreFieldNames" select="'|OBJECTID|Shape|Shape_Length|Shape_Area|ATTACHMENTID|REL_OBJECTID|CONTENT_TYPE|ATT_NAME|DATA_SIZE|DATA|'"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<tr style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;background:">
</tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="FieldsDoc/Attachments" />
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="FieldsDoc/Fields/Field/FieldName">
<xsl:apply-templates select="FieldsDoc/Fields/Field/FieldName[not(contains($ignoreFieldNames, concat(concat('|', text()), '|')))]/.." />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates select="FieldsDoc/Fields/Field" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Field">
<tr>
<xsl:if test="FieldName">
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="FieldName"/>
</td>
</xsl:if>
<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="FieldName[starts-with(., 'VIDEO')]">
<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" frameborder="0">
<xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of select="FieldValue"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="FieldValue"/>
</iframe>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="FieldValue"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Best Answer
Anders:
As of version 10.2, it seems you really can't get ArcMap to open an URL in any browser other than IE. But you can require the IE version you need to best render your content.
Supposing your Windows is properly updated, you should have IE 11 installed. If that is the case, you can produce HTML content, to open in the popup, comprising a meta tag like this:
This guarantees that IE will render your content in IE 9 document mode, instead of the standard IE 7 mode (default for the ArcGIS HTML Popup).
I hope this solves your problem.