Connecting to a Database Manually - Integration for Epic - Foundation 23.1 - Foundation 23.1 - Ready - OnBase - Essential - Premier - Standard - external - Essential - Premier - Standard

Integration for Epic
Platform
OnBase
Product
Integration for Epic
Release
Foundation 23.1
License
Essential
Premier
Standard

Users can manually connect to an OnBase Web Viewer session by entering the URL to the Web Viewer in a web browser. When entering the URL, users can specify the document to open and the database from which to open the document, overriding any configured database within the OnBase Web Server web.config file. For example, this feature can be used when:

  • Users need to access a document saved to a different database than the one configured for their integration.

  • An administrator needs to do testing of the OnBase Web Viewer.

To manually connect to a specified database in an OnBase Web Viewer session:

  1. Locate the web.config file. In a default installation, this is located at C:/inetpub/wwwroot/AppNet.
  2. Open the web.config file in a plain-text editor, such as Notepad.
    Note:

    The *.config file should only be edited in a plain-text editor, such as Notepad, or a utility specifically designed to edit XML files. It should not be edited in a binary editor, such as Microsoft Word. Using a binary editor can introduce invalid characters to the file and make it unreadable by the software.

  3. Locate the enableHTTPDataSource element under Hyland.Web.HealthcareWebViewer.
  4. Within th enableHTTPDataSource element, modify the value attribute to be true.
  5. Save and close the web.config file.
  6. Recycle the application pool of the OnBase Web Viewer for these changes to take effect.
  7. Open a web browser and enter the URL to the OnBase Web Viewer. For example, the URL can be entered in the following format: https://hostname/AppNet/HealthcareWebViewer/Login.aspx?docid=12345&datasource=datasourcename, where hostname is the machine name of theOnBase Web Server, the docid is the Document Handle and the datasource is the name of the connection string configured for the OnBase database to connect to. An OnBase Web Viewer session is opened and the document from the specified database in the URL is displayed.
    Note:

    If a datasource name is not specified in the URL, the OnBase Web Viewer uses the database specified for the datasource configuration setting in the web.config file. If no database is specified for the datasource configuration setting, then the database configured for the dmsDataSource configuration setting is used.