[Resolved] Types is creating a double URL when I insert the URL of a file attachment field

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[Ian Henderson]

On this site hidden link there is a button to download the attached PDF, but the URL of the file is duplicated (and thus a broken link). In the back end it is only showing once.

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Elementor does not offer what to display as by default with the URL field it will display the link.

So I suggest you should remove the elementor button you added and replace that with the following code. Add the following code to shortcode module or text module whatever module you desire will be the best fit for this:

<div class="elementor-element elementor-element-cd6a0df elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="cd6a0df" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default">
				<div class="elementor-widget-container">
					<div class="elementor-button-wrapper">
			<a href="[types field='pdf-attachment' output='raw'][/types]" target="_blank" output="raw" class="elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm" role="button">
						<span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper">
						<span class="elementor-button-text">Download</span>
		</span>
					</a>
		</div>
				</div>
				</div>

As you can see we have added the "href" attribute value with the types shortcode:

[types field='pdf-attachment' output='raw'][/types]

[Ian Henderson]

Hi Minesh - I don't think Elementor is the issue. I have done this many times without a problem.

If I add a shortcode in the Types Content Template to display the raw URL of the link [types field='pdf-attachment' output='raw'][/types] in text in the front end, it's displaying a double URL. however, if I look at the post in the back end the field is showing a single URL correctly.

[Ian Henderson]

Please see here hidden link - I've added the shortcode to display the raw URL

[Ian Henderson]

Actually - I think the issue is nothing to do with Toolset, and may be an error on migration from Wagtail. On closer inspection the URL field has the same URL appended twice but the first one has '-1' at the end of the file name. I'll keep this open while we investigate.

[Minesh]

Ok for sure.

[Ian Henderson]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!