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I’m wondering if it’s possible to output a plain text from from ExpressionEngine just like you would a CSS, JS, or XML file.

I’m rebuilding my portfolio site and have two places where I want certain content, like employment history, to live: 1) on the “about” page as live HTML and 2) in a downloadable resume, in TXT format.

Naturally storing this kind of content once within ExpressionEngine’s database would be nice, that way I can output it simultaneously to both places and never have to worry about updating content in two different places.

Anyone know of how to go about this?

Create a New Template, give it a name such as “Document.txt” and use CSS template type and the document will then be available at http://www.example.com/template_group/Document.txt

Just create a template, set it as a CSS type template (this will set line breaks for you), and name it resume.txt.

Setup your Channel tags to pull the info into the template, then access it via a direct call to the template, ../template-group/resume.txt

If you want to force a file download use something like Download Content

This is a revolution in my EE workflow, thanks guys!

Just for the record, if you set it as the default template type (Web Page) you will lose formatting of new lines/breaks and such. Setting it to CSS, as wildrock mentioned, will set line breaks for you.

Yay!