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Publishing and linking to files in Joomla Media Manager

NOTE: This tutorial assumes that you are working with a PDF document. If you are using a different document, substitute its extension (such as.doc for Microsoft Word documents) wherever you see.pdf.

Uploading your file

Locate a copy of the file on your local machine. Rename it to a suitable web name. (Only use numbers, lower case letters and hyphens in file names)
Log into Joomla as administrator by going to http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/wcmss/administrator or by clicking on the Administrator link in your menu.
Click on Media Manager.
Click on the Browse button and locate the file on your computer. Click OK, and then click on the Upload button in Media Manager to upload it.
Click on the file in Media Manager, and a URL will be created in the Image/URL code section. Highlight the text starting with http and ending with.pdf - what you copy will look something like http://yourschool.eq.edu.au/images/reports/july. pdf. Hit Ctrl+C to copy this URL.

Creating the menu link to the file

Go to Menu >> mainmenu
Click on New to create a new menu link
Select menu type Link - URL
Enter the text you wish to appear on the link in the "Name" section, and paste the URL you copied previously into the "Link" field. Click Save. Clicking on this link in your menu will open your document.

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This page was last reviewed on 12 Jul 2010