I want to show a text file online as a description when users click on a link, and I want it to be a text file, not the html page. I want it just like this link https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/readme.txt.
I have uploaded the .txt file and it opens when the user clicks hyperlink, but contents of that .txt file are not shown....
Any idea what I did wrong?
Its about File-Permissions, you have to set them to Public & Read
This solution is provided to "Online Sites" only. (Not for XAMPP)
Go to Your Admin Panel
Go to Media
Upload your Textfile to your Webserver
Browse your Textfile (via FTP-Client) and make a RightClick
Set CHMOD to 744. (read)(This are File-Permissions)
Open the File in your Browser and it should appear normally.
I've tested it 5 Minutes ago, it should work for you.
If you check the link using Developer Tools (on Chrome) or using Firebug (on Firefox), you'll know that the file is missing. You have not uploaded the file to that location.
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I need to read in a text file shared via Box.com - I'll use mtcars.txt as an example.
WES.ped.exp <-
read.table("https://ucsf.box.com/s/tht30egddqjqlq3koucqy7rhtzkh3ydi")
Problem is the shared link takes me to a viewer interface, from where one is supposed to click Download, and not directly to the plain .txt file.
When reading the table, it just reads HTML lines, like so:
I've tried curl, scan and just read.table , any ideas?
Go to the share setting of the file in question. Click on "Share", go to the settings, and make sure the file's shared link is set to "Anyone with the link can view and download this file", in order to generate a direct link.
Go to the little settings icon, copy the "Direct Link", and paste it into the following:
read.table("https://ucsf.box.com/shared/static/whateverthelinksays.txt")
I'm working on new website (all modules are up to date) but for some reason IMCE file browser is not working well. For image fields in my content types for "file sources" I also check "IMCE file browser".
Then when I'm creating node in that type if I just upload file standard way it works well. But if I want to use IMCE file browser and select already uploaded image it all works up to last step. I click "File browser", then "browse" link, browser's popup appears, I select image, then click "Insert file" (or click on image preview - makes no difference), popup closes, but selected image is not inserted into my file field.
What can cause this behavior?
I had a simillar issue and following these steps made it work for me.
Try the following:
Clear your drupal cache. This can often solve the problem as some items may not have been cached yet.
Keep the Chrome Developer Console open to see if there are any JS errors which may hint at the problem.
In your CKEditor settings, make sure you tick "Plugin for inserting files from IMCE without image dialog"
Ensure that the input field is using Full HTML
If the above does not help try reinstalling IMCE and your WYSIWYG Editor such as CKEditor
I hope this helps.
The requirement is sent a Word document from browser, and automatically open it on MS Word so that then can view and edit the Word document.
The only solution I can found require the end user to click a dialogue Window in order to open a Word document in Office when the document is download from browser.
Is this the only way, that the user has to click a dialogue Window before Office can open the downloaded Word document?
It kinds of make sense for security reason to not let browser automatically execute an local application (Word.exe) on the local machine, but I still want to confirm that.
If the answer is yes, then I would like to know how to do that?
Edit: I just found out that you have to use inline instead of Attachement, otherwise it will always ask for the option event the browsers are setup properly.
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=clientquotes.docx");
After made that change, browser will auto open the Word document without asking for action.
If I understand correctly, you want to change the behaviour of your browser to automatically open downloaded files. As far I'm aware its pretty painless process when it comes to Firefox and Google Chrome, however on IE it's not as simple.
Firefox
Changing download actions
This will not affect media embedded in a web page - only links to the files themselves.
Click the menu button Menu and choose Options
Select the Applications panel.
The Applications panel will display. Select the type of file for which you want to change the default action.
The Action column will give you a drop-down menu, with options on action to take, whenever you click that type of file.
Alwaysask: will prompt you to select what action you want Firefox to take when you click on that type of file. This can be useful if Firefox is automatically saving a file type or is always opening it with a certain program and you want to be asked what to do.
Save File: will always save the file to your computer using the Downloads window, whenever you click that type of file.
Open the file with an application or plugin of your choosing.
Click Ok to close the options window after making changes
Adding download actions
On the web, find a link to a file matching the type you want to add.
Click on the file link to download it.
Select how you want Firefox to handle the file:
Open with: Saves the file to a temporary folder and opens it in the default application for that file type. To select an application, click Browse....
Do not choose Firefox to always open a certain file type, as doing so can cause
a problem where Firefox repeatedly opens empty tabs or windows after you click on a link.
Save file: Saves the file to the download folder (specified in the Firefox General panel).
In the Opening file window, check mark Do this automatically for files like this from now on.
Click Ok.
Is Do this automatically for files like this from now on disabled?
This can happen if the website's server incorrectly specifies the
Internet Media type of the file. It also can happen if the server assigns
"Content-Disposition: attachment" to the file.
Reference
Google Chrome
If you want certain types of file always to open after they've finished downloading, click the arrow next to the file button in the downloads bar and select Always open files of this type.
Reference
IE
From what I can gather for IE you will have to change the registry keys. You can refer to this link for further information.
I hope this answers your question.
I have an intranet site that lets users open files in the browser (by prompting for download). One of these files is an .xlsx workbook that contains hyperlinks which point to different locations of files (.pdfs, .docs) on the file server in which the .xlsx workbook is located.
It seems the file server path to the workbook is replaced by a "Temporary Internet Files/Content.IE5/" path, leading to the warning "cannot open the specified file" in Excel.
I tried downloading the Excel document first and then following the links, but they're still opening in the temp internet location
EDIT:
For instance, when hovering over the hyperlinks in excel they read: "file:///C:\Documents And Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet files\Content.IE5\40WSS3CB\" + filename
when they should read: "file:///\servername\Departments\Read\" + filename
How can I still open the excel file in the browser and retain the hyperlinks inside and have them not be replaced by the temporary internet files path?
can someone point me in the right direction ? Thanks!
I did some testing, and it almost comes from the way you store links. If you browse through the dialog of Insert hyperlink, then you will end with relative urls. That is, the common base is stored as a reference to the current xlsx file path, and the remainder is stored and displayed as link.
You are totally in the issue Richard Hare mentions, so following the procedure from the microsoft support site should help. It did the trick on my test at least.
UPDATE to sum up down.with.the.bass comments :
One option to solve this, if doable, is to open xlsx file from its network share location and not through the website. If it is forbidden for whatever reason, you may be able to update the links using a macro.
Do you have an option like "Update links on save" enabled?
In an earlier version of Excel it was set in Tools, Options, General-tab, Web Options-button, Files-tab.
Try unchecking it and resaving the document.
I just did in my server the same task (the one I understood):
Uploaded the hyperlink to some asp.net webpage.
<p>
test<br />
</p>
The "book1.xlsx" file has inside a cell which refers (hyperlinks) to some share directory (i.e \\NHSTXX1\TEST\MS OFFICE EXCEL - \\SERVERNAME\FOLDER\OTHER FOLDER )
And when clicked the hyperlinked cell, it opened the share directory I was looking for.
I tried with Firefox.
hope this help
Hyperlinks shouldn't just mysteriously change. I saved an excel file with a hyperlink in it - opened it with html - saved it - open it in excel again - and the link stays the same. So I'm not sure how this could be happening to you(if I understand your situation correctly).
In web application [asp.net] can we display the data in plain format. I mean i want to displya report in a plain text format. Is there any reference to study. Thank you.
in a plain text format.
You can achieve this by :
Write your report to some folder UNDER your web application in plain text format (the extension should be .txt)
Create a link with target path to your text file created. For ex. if your file name is TextFile.txt and it resides inside Report folder, then your link can be something like below.
Click to see report
Test the approach. Just click on the link and you will see that your text file is visible in the browser itself. I have tested this on major browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome.
If this works, please mark as answer.