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Thomas Taylor
Thomas Taylor

Reputation: 555

Sitecore PDF Not Downloading

I have a couple of unversioned PDFs in the media library... when I try opening them up from their URLs, it says "Layout not found". When I assign a layout (any layout), it just doesn't render anything.

I've added forcedownload=true to the media library section of the web.config... is there anything I'm missing? I thought this was supposed to download by default

http://testsite.org/sitecore/media%20library/pdfs/Publications/Periodicals/Test

The URL above basically doesn't work

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1020

Answers (3)

jammykam
jammykam

Reputation: 17000

Links to items in the media library are usually prefixed with /~/media/, unless you have changed the value of Media.MediaLinkPrefix in config. The link should be something like:

http://testsite.org/~/media/pdfs/Publications/Periodicals/Test.pdf

Make sure you are generating the URLs using MediaManager.GetMediaUrl()

FileField fileField = Sitecore.Context.Item.Fields["File Field"];
var mediaItem = new MediaItem(fileField.MediaItem);
string url = Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/', MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(fileMediaItem));

Always use LinkManager.GetItemUrl() for items and MediaManager.GetMediaUrl() for media items to generate Sitecore URLs.

Upvotes: 3

Dheeraj Palagiri
Dheeraj Palagiri

Reputation: 1879

//below is the code to specify an Image URL 

MediaItem mediaItem = new MediaItem(Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem("Path"));
                        if (mediaItem != null)
                        {
                            imgBtn.ImageUrl = Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/', Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(mediaItem);
                            imgBtn.AlternateText = mediaItem.Alt;
                        }

Upvotes: 0

xoail
xoail

Reputation: 3064

You don't have to assign a layout to media item. Make sure you add "/" prefix before the url. Ex: site/~/media/path to pdf.ashx.

Also make sure you have media files published.

Upvotes: 0

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