I am having troubles when i try to link the articles to open a file. I mean, when you add a new article you have the option named Link, in that option I select open a file, then i select a file previously uploaded or upload a new one, then i publish the article but when i click the article title, the link doesn't open the pdf file, it goes to detail also the article doesn't have any information in the description field.

in order to do that, you need to change the template.

The default template is linking to the detail page from the title.

you should change the [DETAILLINK] to [READMORELINK] at the View Options.

Thanks.

I have seen a previous post try and do a similar thing and link to a file and just receive the detail page. The answer there was to use [READMORELINK] instead of default template [DETAILLINK] - does this mean the module does not dynamically accept both and I can't have mixed articles with detaillink and external file/web links? Is there a generic [LINK] token that can allows for both methods in the one display?

Brian Mann
Melbourne. Australia

Brian,

[READMORE] link is the link to the attached file, or external link which you supplied when you enter the article information. (in your case, it is dynamically link to either file or an external link)

[DETAILLINK] is the link to the article detail page, which renders data according to the Detail template.

It maybe a little misleading, we will try to enhance the tokens in the future release..