I am setting up a magento store that sells products. Many of these products come with specification documents in pdf format. Is there a way (or an existing module) that will let me upload a pdf document for a product so that users can download the file.
To try clarify things, the pdf is not the product, the product for example would be a kitchen unit etc. The pdf would be fitting specifications. I just want a way to upload a pdf so it appears to download on a product screen.
If you need any more information about this, let me know.
I am setting up a magento store that sells products. Many of these products come with specification documents in pdf format. Is there a way (or an existing module) that will let me upload a pdf document for a product so that users can download the file.
To try clarify things, the pdf is not the product, the product for example would be a kitchen unit etc. The pdf would be fitting specifications. I just want a way to upload a pdf so it appears to download on a product screen.
If you need any more information about this, let me know.
Thanks
Hi,
There is an extension that does exactly what you need. It’s called Useful Downloads. Please take a look at the product page for the list of features. There’s also a video tutorial on how to use this module and an example of a real-life implementation. Hope it helps
Useful Downloads is a good extension but it allows to upload the files only for one product and nothing more. If you use the same documentations for many products you probably be interested in File Downloads & Product Attachments
You can upload the file to a product or many products, group the files by category, grant file access per customer groups, downloads limit etc. You can even choose one of available positions of the block with downloads at the product page. This you do NOT need to modify your templates to move the block to other place. All you have to do is choose the preferred position in Admin Panel.
You also can easily insert the downloads block to your CMS pages.
It has great potential for providing your customers with necessary manuals, documentations in convenient form.
Please try out my method below. I have supplied this technique for all Magento Users from Beginners to Pro’s to use. I use this method for linking PDF files to the Products we Manufacture.
You can view this feature live at ualstore.co.uk and scroll down. You will see the Datasheet link under “Manufacturer”. If you need any more help, please reply to this thread.
This is the easiest, quickest and FREE method I have used.
1 - Create a folder on your server for your downloadable information. I am using Datasheets which begin with code X. Therefore for simplicity I named the folder “x”. I then uploaded ALL of my datasheets to this folder on my server. Whilst doing this, I downloaded a PDF Image and threw this in the folder too.
2 - Go to “Attributes/Manage Attributes” and add a new Attribute. Attribute Code for me was datasheet. I chose yes for available in searches as some customers will know what datasheets they are looking for, or at least the X codes will bring a selection. I also chose Visible on product view and used in product listing. Then go to Manage Label / Options. I named mine Datasheet in the Admin box. Save the new attribute.
3 - Go to Attributes. Manage Atribute Sets and open your Attribute Set. On the right you should now see this new Attribute (again, mine is datasheet. Drag the Attribute and drop it where it is required to show. I already had an Attribute called Manufacturer, so under here was perfect. Click Save Attribute Set.
4 - OK so now when you go to your existing Product in “Manage Products”, you should have the “Datasheet” option. For this part I created some coding in a basic WYSIWYG Editor. This was the code I used :
For you, just replace “MYDOMAIN” with yours of course, replace the “x” with the folder you uploaded your data and image too and of course change the name of the image to the one you uploaded to the folder. The main thing you have to do is link your data, the MYDATASHEET.pdf, just overwrite it with the name of the file you want your customers to read.
When you now view your Products it should say Datasheet (or what you chose) underneath with an image and a link into the file in your folder.
I hope this helps some people and it is worded to help novices and intermediates. If you need more help on this topic, please reply to it and I will help you solve this.
P.S this method will save you at least £55. Enjoy!
Your solution is great. One thing is that users who don’t have FTP access or lack technical skills in FTP will not be able to upload PDFs using your solution.
You would want users to be able to upload PDFs as they create new products.
Product Attachments extension provides you functionality for file downloads and media content sharing available from within Product pages, CMS pages
Configurable features:
* Ability to upload file and attach it to a product or many products instantly
* Ability to organize files by categories
* Ability to share files or media content from any CMS page
Product Attachments extension provides you functionality for file downloads and media content sharing available from within Product pages, CMS pages
Configurable features:
* Ability to upload file and attach it to a product or many products instantly
* Ability to organize files by categories
* Ability to share files or media content from any CMS page
Here is a extension that i made and allows you to upload document files to any kind of products, is cheaper than others in magento community and unlike other I guarantee is 100% compatible with any other extensions.
You can buy it for only $25 here:
