SSI Docs

You can create hotlinks in your articles that link to a downloadable pdf files, word or excel documents, or any other file that can reside on a Web server.

While you can link to any file stored on any Web server (if you know the file path), typically, you will upload these pdf files to your site 'extras' or 'docs' directory. See the associate article about FTP upload to this directory.

You will use the link element to set up the hotlink. For example, we have a pdf version of the documentation available on our CMTDocs site. Click here to download a pdf version of the CMT Documentation. We use the following link to access this file: Click here Note that the spelling in the link element MUST be exactly the same as the file name. Also, since spaces are not allowed in link elements file reference, you must either replace any spaces in the file name with an underscore or, in the link element, replace spaces with '%20'

For example, if we wanted to link to 'CMT Docs' (note the space between the two words, we would write our link reference as follows: Click here