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glenw
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Mar 27, 2006, 3:36 PM

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PDF links in News Manager - Can't Post
Hello

I want to be able to use News Manager to link to PDF's of scanned in press cuttings.

Has anyone done this, or know what I need to do to do this.

Thanks

Glen


Donna
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Mar 27, 2006, 4:40 PM

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Re: [glenw] PDF links in News Manager - [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Glen,

Thanks for your email. :)

Will the PDF's be on the server already, or do you want to be able to upload the PDF's as well? If they've already been uploaded independently of News Manager, then it's a cinch! All you'd have to do is use the WYSIWYG editor to create a link to the PDF article.

If you want News Manager to upload the PDF's as well, that's a little more tricky and becomes a workaround... and would keep you from being able to upload images with the article. A better solution would be to use a third party script to upload the PDF, then you could link to it via the previously mentioned solution.

Let me know if this works for you, and I can go into further detail on how to make this work. :)

Donna

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glenw
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Mar 27, 2006, 11:48 PM

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Hi Donna

Thanks for the reply, I want to use News Manage to upload the PDF's as well as link to them. As it will just be linking to PDF press cuttings. So no need for images.

Thanks

Glen


ross
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Mar 29, 2006, 10:49 AM

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Re: [glenw] PDF links in News Manager - [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Glen.

Since you only want to be working with PDFs it’s actually quite easy Smile.

The first thing you’ll want to do is add PDF to the accepted upload extensions field in Setup Options. Once that’s there, you’ll just need to make two small changes to your _article.html template. Find the $image$ placeholder and remove it. The last thing will be to add in the following code where you want the link to your PDF to appear:

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<a href=$ufile_image$>Click for PDF</a>

Remember to republish your articles after doing all of this and you should be good to go. PDFs will be uploaded the same way you uploaded images.

Give this a shot and let me know how you make out Smile.
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(This post was edited by ross on Mar 29, 2006, 10:50 AM)