On a website I’m building at the moment I have to have a page to access a number of pdf documents. What I’d like to have is a popup menu that gives the user a list of available documents to view/download.
I’ve looked at various options/actions for this but none seem to work as I’d like.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing this - or a different neat solution to access a number of pdf docs without having a logo/button for each document as this would take up too much room on the page.
…what I was hoping for was a way to link to pdf’s in a folder on my computer than have them all upload to the site on publication rather than having to add pdf’s to the server via FTP.
This will require a bit of work to enable and configure, but it does do what you’re describing. You manage the files on the server using a separate FTP/SFTP application like Transmit.
Walter
On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:22 AM, xgraphica wrote:
…what I was hoping for was a way to link to pdf’s in a folder on my computer than have them all upload to the site on publication rather than having to add pdf’s to the server via FTP.
If you want FW to upload the PDFs you could do it in 2 steps.
Step 1 have a page that uses the Link to PDF action to get the files to your server - it doesn’t have to be a page that the public will see so you could give it an obscure name.
Create all your links there.
Step 2. Use the Navigation Popup action and use the Other setting in URL and link to the PDF on the server.
Obviously it will help your cause if you are careful when naming yoiur PDFs that you use unique names so that FW is not tempted to change them. Also valuable to name them just using alpha numeric characters, hphens and underscores - NO Spaces.
Once you have created the PDF link page you can preview in the Browser each link and copy the URL and paste it into the Nav Popup action to save a bit oif typing and potential errors. NB do it once uploaded so you get the path to the file on the server not the local one.
Just a quick response to thank everyone for their help.
I’ve got the Ajax File listing action working now - not sure what I was doing wrong the first 5 times
It’s very useful - not exactly what I was after (I’d prefer it to output to a popup window; like a county list effect) but the ability to throw files directly into an online folder will be a big time saver when administering the site.
Of course, if it was possible to link the AjaxFileListing action to the Navigation Popup Action in would be perfect! ;-0
The index.php written by the Action is hard-wired to create an unordered list of file links, so in order to return a picking list instead, you’d need to do one of two things: either alter the index.php so it will do what you need, or use JavaScript on your page to rewrite the UL into a SELECT tag. I don’t see any way that another Action could work on this, because the list of files is being generated on the server, and the Actions only run within Freeway, while the page is being generated.
Walter
On Aug 14, 2012, at 5:34 AM, xgraphica wrote:
Just a quick response to thank everyone for their help.
I’ve got the Ajax File listing action working now - not sure what I was doing wrong the first 5 times
It’s very useful - not exactly what I was after (I’d prefer it to output to a popup window; like a county list effect) but the ability to throw files directly into an online folder will be a big time saver when administering the site.
Of course, if it was possible to link the AjaxFileListing action to the Navigation Popup Action in would be perfect! ;-0
All beyond my pay level Walter!
I’m happy enough with the way it’s working at the moment. It will only become a problem when the client throws so many files into the folder they scroll of the bottom of the page!
Thanks again.
( I’ve been dipping in and out of Freeway for a number of years now - primarily a print graphic designer; it’s nice to see you’re still around and active!)
