Posted by scotty23 on July 30, 2013 at 1:43pm
Can anyone send me site examples or tools they have used to display documents/forms on your sites for the public that make it easy to view, search, sort. PDF files, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc. We are moving our city site to Drupal early next year and want something that will allow our authors to post files easily and the public to find them easily in one system. thx!
Scott
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Displaying Documents
What we did was create content types for these specific types of documents, then use Views to display them in a chart - It makes it really easy to load new documents.
www.northglenn.org/bidding
www.northglenn.org/pressreleases
www.northglenn.org/sponsorships
Otherwise, for our regular pages, we just added file upload sections on the pages - nothing too fancy.
Displaying Documents on DC.Gov
We built the following to display a large number of documents. Makes them searchable.
http://disb.dc.gov/publications?after[value][date]=&before[value][date]=&keys=INS&type=732&sort_by=field_date_value&sort_order=DESC
question about that...
what did you use to build this?
Looks like it was set up with
Looks like it was set up with Views
We are still on Drupal 6 and
We are still on Drupal 6 and used the Web File Manager (WebFM) module. I understand the File Depot module for Drupal 7 provides similar functionality.
Displaying Documents
We used the List view, which can then be filtered and sorted by using embedded key words for each document.
Cannot recommend File entity
Cannot recommend File entity - and optionally Media - highly enough. Takes a while to get your head around it, but it's very powerful.
We also use Media and File Entity
We also use Media and File Entity, but cannot get the 'file' media type to display correctly in the wysiwyg (we're using CKEditor). So we've opted to have a media field on some content types so that documents can be attached to the content type and displayed in a list. But we do also embed them in content by making manual links.
See this page for an example: http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/node/14926
The table at the bottom 'attachments' is the bit rendered by media from our field on the content type. The other documents above, in the numbered list, were created manually in the wysiwyg.