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Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:59 am
by Sitrakar
Hi!
I'm creating an online help for my company. So I was tasked to create a tile\button on the front page to download a old version of the documentation but in PDF. Is it possible, with oxygen XML, to create this tile\button, which download directly the pdf, in the front page of the webhelp ?
I attached an example of the feature we want in the webhelp.
Best Regards,
Sitraka
pdf_tile.png
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:39 pm
by ionela
Hi,
In our user-guide we have implemented this feature and a link to PDF output was inserted:
PDFLink.png
This can be achieved by configuring some transformation parameters as described here:
How to Add a Link to PDF Documentation
Regards,
Ionela
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 10:26 pm
by Sitrakar
Thanks for the answer.
Best regards,
Sitraka
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 10:55 am
by LASSE_MLE
Hello,
Just a tiny question about this subject. Is the PDF always the same whatever the page of the WebHelp is?
In our project, the WebHelp hosts different SOP, my idea was to be able to deliver the PDF of each SOP, not one for all.
For example:
WebHelp.ditamap
SOP01.ditamap
SOP02.ditamap
The idea was when in one of the topic of the SOP02, to allow to download (only) the SOP02.pdf.
Is it possible?
Thank you,
ML
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:53 am
by ionela
Hi,
Apologize for late reply.
Indeed, you can link in the WebHelp output an external PDF resource, but the PDF is the same for the entire Webhelp output. What you can do is to open the PDF on a specific topic using the
webhelp.pdf.link.anchor.enabled parameter. More details are available in our user guide:
How to Add a Link to PDF Documentation
Feel free to reach of if you need further assistance.
Regards,
Ionela
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 2:19 pm
by LASSE_MLE
Hi Ionela,
Thank you for answer... Not really what I dreamed of but the issue on our side, with this specific implementation...
We cannot make a unique PDF for all the SOP (that will be more than 10k pages) but your tip of the bookmark was nice!
I will keep our dedicated topics to download the PDF!
BR
ML
Re: Downloadable button on the main page
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:02 am
by julien_lacour
Hi,
If you already have the PDFs generated, another solution could be to add them as
related-links in the relevant topics using external/provided scope. Like this, at the end of the topic you will have the possibility to open the dedicated PDF and not the whole documentation.
Regards,
Julien