What is your strategy for downloaded assets?

[Boost]

Hello,

I'm currently working on making PDFs available for download on my website. At the moment, they are not behind any kind of gate or restriction. Users can simply click a download button to access them. My question is, how do you manage and organize such assets? Do you use a dedicated page/template for them, or do you simply upload them directly to the server?

Cheers!

[cwsoft]

Hi,

depends on your needs. Do the Pdf docs contain sensible data, are the docs restricted to users or groups? Can the docs easily guessed and accessed by changing a simple URL parameter like doc_001.pdf, doc_002.pdf etc? Depending on your needs, there are several options to implement it like simple .htaccess with Index listing, a restricted page with non guessable links …

So some more infos would be useful here. 

[zoeck]

If you need Access restrictions, you can use "pagefileSecure"

https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/secure-files/

 

[Boost]

Thanks. It's not about access restrictions. It's just how do you 'store' you PDFs ?

[cwsoft]

4 hours ago, Boost said:

Thanks. It's not about access restrictions. It's just how do you 'store' you PDFs ?

Than I would just upload via Ftp or PW assets and create a template to display them with a download link on page. A google search showed me this topic, which may come handy too.

 

[zoeck]

If you are using a file field, you can also use the "Custom Upload Names" module.

https://processwire.com/modules/process-custom-upload-names/