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Matthew Dresser
Matthew Dresser

Reputation: 11442

Sitecore provide links to allow users to view/download media items

How do I provide links in a page to documents within the Sitecore Media Library?

In my template(s) I have a Treelist which allows users to select a number of documents for a given page object. In my sublayout code-behind I iterate over the items in the Treelist field to get their IDs, then use Sitecore.Links.LinkManager.GetItemUrl() to get the URL to the items. At the moment I simply render the links using a hyperlink, but on clicking the links I get the error saying that no layout was found.

Do I need to create a layout which is an ashx handler to handle downloading the content stream of the media item, or is there something built-in which can do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3767

Answers (4)

HiralShah
HiralShah

Reputation: 11

You can have a TreeList of Documents which are of Type "File" and in your code behind you can itterate a loop to fetch the url of that document item (Which has File Type) and than you can get the Media Url of that file item and assign it to the hyperlink .

Here is the code snippet :

List<Item> documentList = your list of selected documents from sitecore 

foreach(Item item in documentList)
{
    FieldField file = item.Fields["FileField Name"];
    if(file != null)
    {
        if(file.MediaItem != null)
         {
             hyperlink.NavigateUrl =      Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/',Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(file.MediaItem));
         }
     }
 }

Upvotes: 0

Kohen Holms
Kohen Holms

Reputation: 143

To respond to mdresser and to complete comment of Younes; to ensure the prefix '/' using StringUtil looks like this:

var thumbnailUrl = Sitecore.StringUtil.EnsurePrefix('/',
                        Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetThumbnailUrl(_thumbnail));

Upvotes: 1

seth
seth

Reputation: 11

Try using Sitecore.Resource.Media.MediaProvider.GetMediaUrl().

Or, for each item, cast as MediaItem.
Media folder should be : /~/media/
MediaPath is a property.
Extension is the file extension, etc.

Also take a look at using MediaUrlOptions.

Upvotes: 1

Arnold Zokas
Arnold Zokas

Reputation: 8560

To generate links to items within the Media Library you should be using MediaManager. e.g: 

string url = Sitecore.Resources.Media.MediaManager.GetMediaUrl(item)

Upvotes: 6

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