Hi, guys ! A while ago I decided myself to try and create a cloud storage site. The problem is that I can’t figure out a way to download the files that were uploaded. I have tried putting this in an HTML box: 
When I press the download button I just come to the files URL and then maybe I can download manually, but I need it to be automatically. Otherwise the cloud service won’t be compatible with all files.
I would really appreciate your help!
Andreas
Hey Andreas 
Did you try using a link element? If you set the link to be an External URL, open in a new tab, and then have the URL be the file URL, I believe those settings should download the document automatically, on-click. (However, if it’s an image - I think it will open in a new tab on-click first).
Thanks for your reply but I’m not sure I follow, could you perhaps explain in another way?
Sure! Here is a screenshot:
In this example, my Type of Thing is Resume, and Resume has a field to store the File (type: file, list: no). The link element inside states “Click to Download” as the text, and the URL is the URL where the Resume File is stored.
In preview mode, when a User clicks on the link - it should download automatically as long as the file was uploaded using the file uploader and not the photo uploader. Let me know if that works for you and if not I can definitely try to assist in setting this up. 
Thank you very much for your help, Unfortunately your method didn’t work with some of the most common file types like .txt .pdf .png .jpeg.
I found this option on Stack Overflow and tested with jpeg and txt; I think it works! With an HTML element use the code:
Thank you very much, Faye, you almost solved my issue! There is one problem and that is that when I tried to download one of the pdf files it downloaded result.xls instead! Strange huh?
My pleasure Andreas! I just tested with a pdf as well and it did download correctly for me. However, when the file field is empty, it will download ‘result.xls’ instead. Maybe double-check to see if the file field that should contain the pdf isn’t empty?
Yes it contains a file, and this only happens to one pdf file over and over again.
Does this one work for you? (removing the results.xls)
I also noticed in the first example that I just put “Parent group’s Resume’s File”. Even though this worked, I should have put “Parent group Resume’s File’s URL”.
Now i think it really works, but im still going to test with some more files. So thanks again ! 
And this time i hope it works 100% 
My pleasure! Yes! Definitely let me know if it works for all of the files!
From memory, the “download” attribute on an anchor link doesn’t work on Internet Explorer.
IE has other solutions depending on the version of IE. It can get a little messy!
Thanks for the heads up Misha! A bit messy indeed.
This thread talks about using “MsSaveBlob” for IE? To do this would it need to be a javascript plugin first?
Javascript yes, not necessarily in a plugin though.
Who’s going to follow the white rabbit? Haha!
Ohh I see! I will try it out.
I almost lowercased that M, but… I really liked Ms. Save Blob better!
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