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Claushingebjerg 939 posts 2574 karma points

Oct 27, 2010 @ 09:41

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link to media file from menu

I have a site set up, where i need to have one of menu items link to a file in the media section.

What i have done is creat a document type called "PDF link". On this document type i have a media picker.

So i thought giving this media picker the alias "umbracoRedirect" would do the trick, but i was wrong. umbracoRedirect apparently only works with content...

How do i get this to work in the simplest possible way, preferbly without .net code?

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Lee Kelleher 4026 posts 15836 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Oct 27, 2010 @ 10:40

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Hi Claushingebjerg,

Nice try with the "umbracoRedirect" alias - I like your thinking! But as you found out it wouldn't work.

The problem is that with a media-type, you have to know its property aliases too. The only way I can see this working is by using XSLT to build the menu/nav links.

You can test if the media-picker has a value, then call GetMedia and render out the "umbracoFile" path instead of calling "NiceUrl".

Cheers, Lee.

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Claushingebjerg 939 posts 2574 karma points

Oct 27, 2010 @ 10:58

Cool. Thanks for the pointer...

I did it this way

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="pdffile !=''">
  <a href="{umbraco.library:GetMedia(pdffile, false())/umbracoFile}" target="_blank">
  <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
    <a href="{umbraco.library:NiceUrl(@id)}">
    <xsl:value-of select="@nodeName"/></a> 
  </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

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Tv 2 posts 22 karma points

Jun 18, 2011 @ 11:00

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Great, just what i needed :) Thx for the code!

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Bent Holz 100 posts 273 karma points

Nov 17, 2013 @ 13:26

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Yeah thx... works like a charm

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