links to supp files in PDF articles

[elhay]

Hi

I want to put a URL link into the PDF of an article which gives the reader access to an mp3 that has been uploaded as a supplementary file. Can anybody post the format of the link please? I imagine there is a php request format that will do the job but I have not been able to locate the form of the link from the manual. The solution suggested to me involved giving read access to the supp files but I don't know how to do that without giving access to everything else as well.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted.

Thanks

[jmacgreg]

Hi elhay,

Please see this thread for a description on how to link to supplementary files.

Cheers,
James

[wissam]

Hello,

I need to know how to link (Hard-Code?) Supplementary files in a PDF galley?

I was following the discussions in this forum on the topic but they all are considering HTML galleys where ojs:// links should work.

How should links in a PDF Article still work even when the reader download it?

Thanks a lot

[jmacgreg]

HI wissam,

The problem is that you may not know exactly what the URL to a specific file will be before you publish it. One workaround is to use unique identifiers for all components under Journal Setup Step 4.3, and use an increment-able naming mechanism to name these components; then you can string the components together to form a URL. For example, if your journal is at http://example.com/index.php/journalName; the public issue identifier (set under the Issue Data page for that issue) is set to "1v1"; the article public ID (set under the Table of Contents page for that issue) is set to "article1"; and the supplemental file public identifier (set by the Editor when adding/editing a supplementary file) is set to suppFile1, then you can add the bits together like so:

http://example.com/index.php/journalName/ + [article public ID] + /downloadSuppFile/ + [supplementary file public ID]

... which would look like:

http://example.com/index.php/journalNam ... /suppFile1

So long as you name each article and supplementary file using some sort of understood mechanism, you should be able to build the links for inclusion before you publish them.

Cheers,
James