Summary

The download-link component generates a button link for downloading files from your documentation site. Only downloading from your site is allowed, for security reasons it is not allowed to create download links targeting files hosted on external sites. There are two prossible approaches for placing the downloadable files into the doc-contents root documentation directory, in the same directory with the parent document or in a dedicated downloads directory, under the doc-contents directory. No other option is allowed.

Download from same directory

Downloading from the same directory as the current document is the recommended approach. This approach requires to create a directory for your document and to place the document and its download(s) in that directory. Then, creating the download link is as simple as it is shown below:

📁 download-link/
├── 📄 download-link.md
└── 📄 lorem-ipsum.pdf

{% include elements/downloads.html 
    type="warning" 
    outline="false" 
    text="Download" 
    file="lorem-ipsum.pdf"
    downloadName="lorem_ipsum.pdf"    
%}

Download from downloads directory

If it make more sense to have an unique directory containing all the downloads of your site, then create a downloads directory inside doc-contents root documentation directory and place your download(s) there, all in the root directory or in separate sub-folders inside doc-contents/downloads directory. Creating the download link is as shown below.

📁 downloads/
└── 📄 lorem-ipsum.pdf

{% include elements/downloads.html 
    type="danger" 
    outline="false" 
    text="Download" 
    file="lorem-ipsum.pdf"
    downloadName="lorem_ipsum_alt.pdf" 
    downloadsDir="true"   
%}

Parameters

• type the button link type; default value is primary
• outline specify of the button is outlined button or not; default value is false
• text the text rendered on the link button
• file the name of the downloadable file
• downloadName the name under which the file is downloaded; if not provided, the file is downloaded with its name
• downloadsDir specify if the downloadable file is in the same directory as the parent document or is in doc-contents/downloads directory; default is true

Download links group

Use this component when you want to group multiple download links in the same section.

{% capture downloads %}
      type=primary|outline=false|text=Download link 1|file="lorem-ipsum.pdf"|downloadName="lorem-ipsum-group.pdf"|downloadsDir="false",
      type=secondary|outline=false|text=Download link 2|file="lorem-ipsum.pdf"|downloadName="lorem-ipsum-group-alt.pdf"|downloadsDir="true"
{% endcapture %}
{% include elements/downloads-group.html downloads=downloads %}