How to embed a downloadable PDF in a dashboard

Question

Is there a way to embed a PDF document in a dashboard so a user ca n either view it or download it?

jeffevoy · Answer

All: Thanks for the input. I’ve been using the URL link for images, just didn’t think to do the same for files. Merry Christmas to all!!! Jeff Evoy

Ronald Schaareman · Answer

Hi @jeffrey.evoy , Just like @benjamin.bunting we have a single asset that contains all downloadable stuff (like help documents, excel templates, etc). To make them accessible to our users we simply put a text widget on a dashboard and using HTML/CSS added a hyperlink to those documents. Note that you can of course just as well use the normal hyperlink functionality on the text widget itself, but we like to make it pretty as well, using icons and so on. So don’t let that scare you. Hope this helps. Kind regards, Ronald

Former User · Answer

Hi Jeffrey - any file can be ‘attached’ to a Community or asset. Then you can right-click on the item in the interface and get the URL to it. I use this as the hyperlink. Clicking this link should cause an automatic download of the file . I have lots of training documents so I created a sub-community just for them and attached them all to it.

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