Files - show only document filename, not path

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This topic contains 6 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Shane 8 years ago.

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November 27, 2015 at 5:15 pm #350235

Gavin

Hi there.

I have a list of files (pdfs) uploaded to my site but it text rendered shows the whole file path, eg. hidden link.

Is there a way to only display 'filename.pdf', not the path.

Thanks. Gavin.

November 27, 2015 at 8:16 pm #350258

Shane

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Hi Gavin,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

From our documentation the field should default to displaying the filename as a url. Please see the document below for further options for the file fields.
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/#file

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
Shane

November 28, 2015 at 10:38 am #350296

Gavin

Hi Shane - thanks for getting back to me.

I don't want to show the url (hidden link), but just the filename (filename.pdf).

Thanks. Gavin.

November 30, 2015 at 3:06 pm #350575

Shane

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Hi Gavin,

This is strange, it seems we found a bug on the shortcode. The shortcode should just display the filename as a link to the file itself.

What i'm going to do is to report this issue to our development team because it's not consistent with our documentation.

However what you can do is to use the title attribute as a workaround to prevent the file url from coming up.

[types field="file-upload" link="true" title='test'][/types]

Let me know if this helps.

November 30, 2015 at 3:07 pm #350578

Shane

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Escalated

January 6, 2016 at 2:27 pm #357514

Shane

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Hi Gavin,

I must apologize for the lengthy delay.

It seems the issue here is actually an error in our documentation.

Any solution will require a custom solution to parse the url and strip it.

Thanks,
Shane

April 14, 2016 at 2:02 pm #386772

Shane

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Hi Gavin,

A customer shared some custom code with us that proves useful to your case.
Have a look at it in the link below.
https://toolset.com/forums/topic/another-vote-for-showing-filename-only-in-list-of-attached-files/#post-384962

Thanks,
Shane

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