Hi,
I can't seem to find an answer for this on the forums. I found some related issues, but not the exact one. One seems to be what I'm looking for but the link to the referenced white paper is broken. Click here if you want to review that post.
What I need is to be able to have the user click on an attachment link in a SharePoint list item and have it open on the client instead of the the active internet browser; specifically, a PDF file. SharePoint 2010 allows a user to checkout, open, edit and then checkin a document library PDF back to the the SharePoint document library without having to save it to their computer first. I need this same functionality for a list item attachment.
The problem seems to be that a list item attachment is really a hyperlink to the PDF stored in the server file structre where as the document library file behaves like a true standalone file.
Can anyone help with this?