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Opening hyperlinked files in SL 360
Greetings,
I need to open a hyperlinked file in a published course as a PDF document that automatically downloads rather than automatically opening in a new tab with a unique link. Can you tell me how to do this? I'm using both Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers.
Thanks
Nesreen
Hi NesreenAl-Khamm I'm afraid Storyline does not provide the configuration options to allow you to make the document a download rather than opening in a new window. It would need the download attribute to work:
<a href="filename.pdf" download="custom-filename.pdf">Download</a>The simplest solution would be to add the file to a *.zip file. As a browser cannot render a zip file, it is forced to download it. As the document is a PDF, and modern browsers can render PDF, they will always open the document if the link doesn't feature the download attribute.
Thank you very much Sam for your feedback which confirms our understanding of the use of the hyperlinked file in SL 360.
