Re: Hyperlink on form set to Download only, is that possible?

JenniferLindsay — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 02:08:02 GMT

Hi JimiH,

Believe it or not, this has nothing to do with InfoPath and everything to do with the way browsers interpret links.

What you will need is to upload a script to your site that will force links to download, and then to modify the links in your form in such a way that the script is called and download is forced.

Here's a link to a PHP script I've used before: http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/download.php

Now, there's a lot of stuff in this script, but to do what you want you will need to modify only two lines:

(1) define('BASE_DIR','/home/user/downloads/'); <-- change the /home/user/downloads/ to point to the document library you want to download from

(2) $allowed_ext = array ( <-- after this line make sure to add any MIME types you will need that are missing from the default script (here is a list of MIME types) If you're in a hurry, the MIME type for xml forms and xsn templates is 'application/xml'

Now supposing you've uploaded the download script to the following location: mysite.com/path/to/script/

Then the link to download a form called "myForm.xml" in your document library (the same library you entered the path to in (1) above) would look like this:

http://mysite.com/path/to/script/download.php?f=myForm.xml

So just add a hyperlink that looks like this inside your form, and then when the user clicks the link he/she should be immediately prompted to download the file.

Good luck!

Hyperlink on form set to Download only, is that possible?

JimiH — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:32:05 GMT

Hello

As the title says, I have a form with links to a document library. When a user clicks one of the links

i want the link not to open the file but download it.

Is that possible?

thanks

Geoff

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