How to add a downloadable pdf in CMS Made Simple
January 6th, 2009 by tosd
It is often useful to provide visitors to a website with a downloadable document. This can be a PDF (the recommended format) but could also be a Word document or Excel spreadsheet. In recent versions of CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) that use the TinyMCE editor this is quite simple. With the page editor open at the desired page follow these steps:
- Highlight the text the visitor is to click to download the file
- Click the link icon in the editor toolbar
- When the popup window appears click the browse icon to the right of the URL field
- Click (open) the ‘files’ folder and either select a previously uploaded file from the list or browse your local PC to upload a new one. Note: if a ‘files’ folder is not present you can create one with this popup screen. Is is always a good policy to keep downloadable files separate from images.
- In either case once you have selected your file set the target to ‘Open in a new window (_blank)’ when the Insert/Edit popup window appears.
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