Documents - Can non-logged in users download files from Sugar?

[lmcanada]

We offer a number of marketing video clips to sales reps through our Documents module, and in many cases it would be useful if clients/leads could access the link and download the files as well.

When a non-logged in client tries this, the site returns "Not a valid entry point"

We don't offer clients access to the CRM, so I would like to know if its possible to let them have access to the documents via the individual file urls.

Thanks for any advice!

[Angel]

Sure, it is just a file in your htdocs/wwwroot directory.

The trick is figuring out which file it is that you would link to. The way Sugar sets it up is that the name of the file on the file system is actually the ID value of the record in the Sugar DB which references it.

As long as you know which files to link to from the page you are displaying to your clients, there should be no reason why you can't allow them to download it.

Note that you might have to mess with the header on the html a bit too as the files do not have an extension on them and the browser wouldn't know how to handle the data.

[gsrigg]

Sure, it is just a file in your htdocs/wwwroot directory.

The trick is figuring out which file it is that you would link to. The way Sugar sets it up is that the name of the file on the file system is actually the ID value of the record in the Sugar DB which references it.

As long as you know which files to link to from the page you are displaying to your clients, there should be no reason why you can't allow them to download it.

Note that you might have to mess with the header on the html a bit too as the files do not have an extension on them and the browser wouldn't know how to handle the data.

You could take a copy of download.php and just drop out the enforced checks (entry point, authenticated user ID). Might be the quickest way.

Cheers,
~G

[lmcanada]

Thanks guys,

I took gsrigg's suggestion and modified download.php, removing the first if statement so that it doesn't check if a user is logged in. As far as its looks, everything is fine.

Non-logged in users can download files if they have the link URL, which is totally fine for what we're doing.

Thanks for the help!