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Managing documents/files and creating links in the article or page entry

March 25, 2014 6:40pm

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  • #1 / Mar 25, 2014 6:40pm

    mvcreative

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    Hello everyone,

    We got a project where the client will need to upload pdf, doc, xls, ppt, zip, files and so on.  Later, when creating a page entry will need to create links to this documents as easy as possible.

    The documents may not be part of a whole ‘category’, meaning that calendar.zip will be used on page 1, and page 2 from different sections.

    Doing some research found that some guys mention using Matrix but it seems to work better for a collection of documents.

    Also, the client will need to have a way to create some sort of folder organization structure, like 2014>Calendars, 2014>Schedules, etc.  Found Assets as well and seems to provide the admin panel we need.

    The potential issue is that the link to the desired document will not be always a list, but a simple link in the paragraph of the text the user is creating.  So, the creation of the link should be easily created from the text editor and not a field from the channel that populates a grid.  Looks like Wygwam could work.

    Do you guys have a suggested approach or set of add-ons that will recommend using instead?
    The cost of the add-ons doesn’t sound bad at all (assets+wygwam)  but I follow an advice from someone here in the forums about exploring EE built-in features before going crazy into extra add-ons.

    Thanks for your time.

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