Embedded URL is not correct

I don’t believe this is messed up at all. It’s a result of using the enhanced viewer option. If you don’t need toolbar customization and aren’t experiencing any other issues, you can switch to Google Standard Viewer then the URL won’t be “messed up.”

Hope this helps.

Okay I used the “standard” viewer and this is the iframe tag it put in my page:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbert.redcanoecu.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2FSafety.pps&hl=en_US&embedded=true" class="gde-frame" style="width:100%; height:500px; border: none;"></iframe>

Still “messed up” URL. Any suggestions? BTW..thank you for checking this support forum and answering so quickly…much appreciated!

The URL is still looking like I would expect, but the file URL does not exist when I try, which would prevent the viewer from retrieving it of course. What value are you putting in the file= attribute? When you put it directly in the browser, does it prompt to download or do you get an error?

Yes, it does prompt me to download when I paste it directly in a browser. That is why I know it’s okay. BTW..it’s on an intranet so that’s why it’s not working for you.

But it looks like this when I put it in my post:

[gview file="https://bert.redcanoecu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Safety.pps" save="1"]

But when I view the page source it looks like it does in my previous post. ??

Hi Russ,

Thanks for sticking in there while I’ve tried to understand your problem. You revealed it in your answer: your document is on an intranet. Since it’s not working for me, no doubt it’s not working for Google, either.

The document must be accessible to Google in order to be translated into viewer format. You’ll have to put the document on a server location that Google can access. See Notes. The URL in your page source is correct, and Google needs to be able to pull the file for conversion.

Kevin

Well that is embarrassing ?? Thank you Kevin.