Thread: Uploading PDF Spec Sheets

We have a lot of products with PDF spec sheets, and in some cases MSDS PDF files.

Is there a simple way to upload those and/or treat them like an iimage to link to for each product?

Interesting post... we have exactly the same problem.

On our old site (before ADNSF) about the only good thing it did do was display a PDF icon on the product page when there was a ProductID.PDF in a PDF directory.

We're just in the throws of upgrading to v8 and will be adding this functionality back in so we'll keep you updated.

This is something that we kind of need - while we can manually upload them and make a link on the product page, that is pretty much a kludgey way to do it.

That is what we have to do now on our old primitive store, and is one of the things we were trying to get away from.

With the prevalence of PDF files nowadays, you would think that most carts would have something like that, but very few do.

We support HTML-based spec sheets by uploading productid.htm into the description/productspecs folder on the site, in which case they will be picked up and displayed (or linked). PDF files are not specifically supported in this manner, but it would be a dirt simple mod to make...

There is one block of code in ProductSpecs.cs that would need to be modded:

Code:

		private bool FindIDFile()
                     ...
				// try skin (NULL) path:
				m_URL = Path.Combine(m_Root,m_ProductID.ToString() + ".htm");
				m_FN = CommonLogic.SafeMapPath(m_URL);
				if(CommonLogic.FileExists(m_FN))
				{
					return true;
				}

Just change that to look for PDF files instead.

where is the ProductSpecs.cs file? Do I just replace the HTM with PDF ?

Also, how do I make the spec link pop up window resizable ? it is static right now and is too small.

If you're using v.8.x, the ProductSpecFile.cs should be inside the ASPDNSFCore. It's in the ASPDNSFCommon for v.7.x. Yes, you simply replace the .htm with .pdf on the FindIDFile method. Manually place the PDF file in the root folder afterward. Then specify the complete filename of the PDF on the SpecTitle and SpecCall fields under the Options tab of the Product Management page. It should display similar to this image.

thanks for the file location, Is that also where I can set the popup window size, I don't use the inline spec sheet and the popup window is a fixed size and can't be adjusted.

Is that file location only available if you have the source code? I don't think I do. Where can I define the popup window size? Is there a workaround I can impose just through the xml package?

Hi.

It looks like it's been awhile since you posted your question about the size of the spec window, but I had the same question recently and thought I'd post my solution to help everyone out in case it wasn't posted elsewhere (I didn't seem to find it).

Problem:
I added spec files and the popup window was too small and had no scroll bars.

Solution:
In version 8.0.1.2 ML, this code can be found in AspDotNetStorefrontCore/XSLTensionBase.cs line 2761 (unmodified). The method is public virtual string ProductSpecsLink(String sProductID, String sShowSpecsInline, string sSpecTitle, string sSKU, string sSpecUrl),

You simply need to add "scrollbars=yes" here:

Code:

            //If product has spec or url, add a link for new window for the custom html depending on the specurl
            if (ProductHasSpecs || SpecUrl.Length > 0)
            {
                results.Append("<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"window.open('" + SpecUrl + "', 'null', 'scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=500,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no');\">" + SpecTitle + "</a>\n");
            }

I didn't see a way to do this in the XML template or for those of you without the source code, but I didn't look that hard either. Adding this tag solved my problem and I now have scroll bars.

If there is another way to do this without modifying code, I'd love to see it.

Hope this helps,

Best regards,