Need link to and open text (.log) file in Notepad or IE

ehorde — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:12:55 GMT

I have a unique need to create a concatinated link to a log file on a remote server. This link needs to be in the InfoPath MOSS form. I am doing this with .cgi files succesfully with a concatinated http:\\ hyperlink.

However I cannot get the .log extension to open in either Notepad or iExplorer. (either should l work) I have played around with the file://, http://\\file\, etc, etc, etc.

Some examples of what I have tried is:

concat("file:///",my.myfield,"/c$/WINDOWS/system32/LogFiles/W3SVC1/ex",my.myfield2, ".log")

concat("\\",my.myfield,"\www_logs\ex",my.myfield2,".log")

When I have successfully linked to the log file, IE downloads the file (not what I want), prompts me to open it and then abruptly shuts itself down.

I there a way to open (link to) a text file from an infopath form into either IE or Notepad?

Browser Forms

Need link to and open text (.log) file in Notepad or IE