- I use my Playbook to read school assignments often and I was wondering if there was a way to easily create a direct link to say a PDF file on the Home screen or in the Apps list.
On my Bold I can add a file to the Home screen, is there a way to do this on the Playbook that I'm just missing somehow?04-13-12 09:31 PMLike 0 -
OP, into the browser address bar enter the / character. This will take you to the file system on the pb at the top. Click accounts, then 1000, the Shared. Then click the folder where your pdf files are stored. If you create a folder in Documents/pdf, you'd have less files to scroll through to find your needed one. Once looking at the folder with your pdf file, click the STAR+ icon at the top, create a Desktop Favorite. Close the browser. Go to the desktop, find the favorite and it will open to your folder, find your file/pdf and tap it and the Adobe reader will open.
Not direct but closer than nothing.
Or you can use a file manager to get there.04-13-12 11:39 PMLike 11 - Now that you mentioned creating a desktop favorite, the OP could get a bit closer using that concept.
OP, into the browser address bar enter the / character. This will take you to the file system on the pb at the top. Click accounts, then 1000, the Shared. Then click the folder where your pdf files are stored. If you create a folder in Documents/pdf, you'd have less files to scroll through to find your needed one. Once looking at the folder with your pdf file, click the STAR+ icon at the top, create a Desktop Favorite. Close the browser. Go to the desktop, find the favorite and it will open to your folder, find your file/pdf and tap it and the Adobe reader will open.
Not direct but closer than nothing.
Or you can use a file manager to get there.04-14-12 11:02 AMLike 0 - Now that you mentioned creating a desktop favorite, the OP could get a bit closer using that concept.
OP, into the browser address bar enter the / character. This will take you to the file system on the pb at the top. Click accounts, then 1000, the Shared. Then click the folder where your pdf files are stored. If you create a folder in Documents/pdf, you'd have less files to scroll through to find your needed one. Once looking at the folder with your pdf file, click the STAR+ icon at the top, create a Desktop Favorite. Close the browser. Go to the desktop, find the favorite and it will open to your folder, find your file/pdf and tap it and the Adobe reader will open.
Not direct but closer than nothing.
Or you can use a file manager to get there.04-14-12 11:05 AMLike 0 - The limitation is the the browser does not directly open pdf files. So I think you are stuck with the more generic, get to the pdf folder, then manually select the file and it launches the adobe reader. Other file types the Browser can open. I'm not sure if it is faster than opening Adobe and then browsing for the file. But the other examples cited are good ones, too.04-14-12 10:25 PMLike 0
- Just a brief comment. Rim has changed the "string" to have the browser get to the folders on the pb.
You use to need "file:///" and then they changed it to something else. I think at one point they actually removed any access (or we needed to figure out the string). Now the simple "/" is sufficient. Who knows what they might do next.04-15-12 09:39 AMLike 0 -
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