If a user adds from the multi file uploader and adds 1 file, it downloads the file on the front end.
When a user adds from the multi file uploader and it’s 2+ files, then I get this error message.
Any ideas? Here’s a quick video showing the error:
Here is me (the project owner) who has it’s not hidden from.
Here is my error.
Here are my privacy settings. I have none.
It looks like I’ve isolated the issue. If there is more than 1 file, then I get this message. If it’s a single file, there are no issues.
I have used the multifile uploader. Can you not have a link to a file if it’s more than 1 or do I need to list them out?
Here are the multiple files.
There are the only 2 I’m getting an error message.
Is “Proposal” a single item field? Or a list of things?
Weird. There’s another thread going on that’s getting the same error, also using the multi-file uploader. I’ve never used it, so my experience is nonexistent with it. Hopefully someone else has some insights!
Does anyone else have some input here? Much appreciated.
hi @mgray,
The problem is that the link is taking the URL of a list of files, which is effectively a list of texts.
When a list of texts is represented as one text, by default they are joined together with a comma.
So your link has something like this, which the browser then matches it to https or http whichever is appropriate …
//s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1533734573125x978449569316580900/%5E5404CB18CCA4E55EFFD1D6A1033F5B88670116D1767B2ACF80%5Epimgpsh_fullsize_distr.jpg,%20//s3.amazonaws.com/appforest_uf/f1533734573641x486278980504721400/1236996_466570603546171_265849568834733064_n.jpg
It would be a useful diagnostic step for you to display a text link with the same text as the link.
What comes next? A design decision, which file to display in the link, or do you want to have a list of links?
To show just the first link, put :first item to specify you are dealing with one file …
Proposal :first item's URL
Or, to show links to them all, create a repeating group, set its data source to be the list of files i.e. Proposal, and inside the group have a link for each item …
Current cell's URL
Another option is using a bit of regex to create all the links in a single text. I can post that too, if it will be useful.
@mishav Thanks for the response! It all makes sense. If you couldn’t mind, could you let me know a bit about the regex? I don’t know what or how that works. I have seen it but that’s it.
Lastly, if this were you, which do you think is the best option?
Thanks again!!
See below. It works nicely.
MyFilesList's URL :join with " " :find & replace
Join with makes a space-separated list of URLs.
In the find & replace,
Regex pattern: (\S+)
Replace by: [url=https:$1]link[/url]
Could put other styles and colours, similar to what is generated in the rich text editor.
This gives a line of three text links with uninspiring labels …
link link link
Taking it a step further, the regex can put the filename part as the label.
Nice solution!
