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I want to call a URL in background to update flag in DB. In that view, is there any way with PdfAction(new url), I can accomplish that.
The Idea behind that to see how many times PDF got opened.
 
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Rahul Ba wrote:I want to call a URL in background to update flag in DB. In that view, is there any way with PdfAction(new url), I can accomplish that.



I don't see how new PdfAction(URL) could be made to have the effect of updating a database.

Why don't you just insert some normal database code to do your updating?
 
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I don't think PdfAction is the way to achieve this. Embedded JavaScript may be able to accomplish this, although considering the security issues around that, that may well be turned of, or prompt the user before accessing any external URL. See SOAP and web services for how you might be able to go about this.
 
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