Inserting .doc files in article

[Samuel Marin]

Hi all,
I'm completely new to Elxis (installed today!) and need to put up a site for our school in a month or so. (Revamping for Guppy.)
I feel that Elxis is the CMS for us (great job progamming this guys!) but of course there are still things that I don't understand yet.
One thing is I can insert a picture using the mosimage system but I can't think of a simple way to link to a .doc file other than uploading the doc through ftp and creating an absolute link. That way might work for me, as admin, but it will not do with other people who won't have access - and knowledge - to ftp.

I'd appreciate help on this.
Thanks a lot.
Samuel

[webgift]

Hello Samuel and Welcome to Elxis Forum.
You can use mosimage bot in order to replace an image url into specific image each time. To succeed that with a doc file you must convert each document and replace the code of Microsoft Word document into html. As i have noticed there is no any bot doing that.
However i have developed a bot ( after user request ) on which it replaces a pdf file using google docs technology. I can change that in order to include all of supported files types (Google Docs). I just want tell me if you want that. If yes then i will update it and i will inform the Elxis Download center.

[Samuel Marin]

Hi, and thanks for looking into my problem (very quickly indeed!).
As I understand it you mean Elxis cannot insert a downloadable MS Word doc file into any article.
This poses a real problem for our school since we need many different doc types to be available to the community (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, odt, zip, 7zip, exe, etc.) and putting them in a page should be easy for every member.
I do not wish you or anyone to spend a lot of time reprogramming this or that module for just our purpose, although I appreciate very much the offer and understand the involvement this means.
If your final answer is 'no' then I will be forced to thank you all and drop Elxis until next time.
Thanks again for all your commitment.
Samuel

[CREATIVE Options]

For a download center of any type of file you can use the Component "IOS Downloads"

[webgift]

Ops. I might misunderstood your request. I understand the case that you want to click on a menu item and you will have the ability to see all of these supported file types immediately.
Of course you can use it in case of downloading that files.
You can either use the component Downloads or you can upload the files on your web server using FTP client ( like filezilla) and write on your content items or autonomous pages a url on which redirect to each file like.
<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/downloads/document.doc" title="document title" target="_parent">Download the document file</a>

Hope that understood your request.

[Samuel Marin]

Hi again and thanks for the support.
Webgift: the second option you suggest is exactely what I want to avoid. Most - if not all - members of our staff are unable to use ftp and to create links, and even then it would be too long a process for everyday use.
Creative options and webgift: I've tried the component 'IOS Downloads'. As I understand it, it provides one download spot on the site but does not make it possible to insert documents inside articles. Tell me if I'm wrong. I could not find any other way to use this.
BTW I tried to link to the IOSD from the main menu and the module crashed (404) :-( Bad luck. But if it does not do what I need then there's no use debugging the beast.
Thanks a lot and I'm eagerly waiting for your next suggestion.
Samuel

[webgift]

Inserting documents inside articles using IOS Download Component , you will need a bot. As i can see there isn't such a bot at EDC. You can post a relative subject regarding that at forum section : Job-offering ads
- Creating a menu link you have to install component Download first successfully. After that : [Administrator area] -> [top menu] Menu -> main menu -> [Right top ] new -> [select] Component -> [Name: ] Downloads - [Component:] IOS Downloads etc.

[nikos]

Hi all,
I'm completely new to Elxis (installed today!) and need to put up a site for our school in a month or so. (Revamping for Guppy.)
I feel that Elxis is the CMS for us (great job progamming this guys!) but of course there are still things that I don't understand yet.
One thing is I can insert a picture using the mosimage system but I can't think of a simple way to link to a .doc file other than uploading the doc through ftp and creating an absolute link. That way might work for me, as admin, but it will not do with other people who won't have access - and knowledge - to ftp.

I'd appreciate help on this.
Thanks a lot.
Samuel

Hi Samuel

I would like to contribute too to your needs. But i would like you to confirm me if i understood well your issue, so to avoid giving you wrong instructions. So, you want to make a link to a doc file over an image inserted into content using bot mosimage. Is this right?

[Samuel Marin]

Hi, Nikos and thanks for offering your help as well.
This is not exactely my case. I would like everyone, including people who barely know how to log on to a CMS, to be able to write an article and include a document for download such as this:

---- Example:

Hello, school,
This is the Biology teacher writing here. Every student should download the following Word file containing the next lesson. -nextlesson.doc
Bye

---- End of example.

It should be easy for anyone to upload the Word (or any other type) file while writing the article.
I hope you understand my problem now.
PS: I only mentionned the mosimage because the uploading process should look something alike.

Thanks again for any help.
Samuel

[wbread]

when creating an article, you can insert links to your documents that were previously loaded using the IOSD component.
you need to give permission to download files to a user group that write articles.
sequence of actions:
1 create a group - teachers
2 give them permission to add articles
3 give them permission to add files
4 when creating an article they copy link to the file and paste it into the article itself

Inserting documents inside articles using IOS Download Component , you will need a bot.

good idea, will have to think about it

[nikos]

Hi, Nikos and thanks for offering your help as well.
This is not exactely my case. I would like everyone, including people who barely know how to log on to a CMS, to be able to write an article and include a document for download such as this:

---- Example:

Hello, school,
This is the Biology teacher writing here. Every student should download the following Word file containing the next lesson. -nextlesson.doc
Bye

---- End of example.

It should be easy for anyone to upload the Word (or any other type) file while writing the article.
I hope you understand my problem now.
PS: I only mentionned the mosimage because the uploading process should look something alike.

Thanks again for any help.
Samuel

It looks simple. Every student or teacher can have access to administration panel as manager (for example) and he can upload his files by Media Manager into his own folder (example for student: images/stories/docs/student_name or for teacher images/stories/docs/teacher_name) and then he can create a content item typing his text and at the end he can insert a link title to a file (doc or whatever) and save the content item.

And can look like this (see attached images)

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