The first thing I've tried to do with the newsletter is to post our Stake Emergency Preparedness Manual there. The bulk of the manual is in a collection of .pdf files (53 of them to be exact). I did this by creating a short explanatory newsletter article, and then tried to attach the .pdf files.
I seem to be having trouble getting them all attached. After about 41 attachments, the subsequent ones lose their names; they are listed only as "file" with no file type. This makes them problematic to use. Is there a limit to the number of attachments to an article?
Also, if a section of our manual is updated, I'd really like to be able to change an attachment while keeping its name and order in the list intact. Is there a way to replace an attachment?
Finally, is there a way to cause all attachments to be listed in sorted order? (I've named the various .pdf files with a consistent naming scheme: S<section#>-<item#>-name.pdf so that sorting the names will put them in the proper order.)
Thanks!
Limits on number of attachments
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aebrown
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I don't know of any limit. I just successfully created an article with 100 attachments. They all retained their names.ThomsonMA wrote:The first thing I've tried to do with the newsletter is to post our Stake Emergency Preparedness Manual there. The bulk of the manual is in a collection of .pdf files (53 of them to be exact). I did this by creating a short explanatory newsletter article, and then tried to attach the .pdf files.
I seem to be having trouble getting them all attached. After about 41 attachments, the subsequent ones lose their names; they are listed only as "file" with no file type. This makes them problematic to use. Is there a limit to the number of attachments to an article?
How did you add the attachments? Did you drag and drop, or use the "Add Attachments" button? I used both techniques successfully, but perhaps that makes a difference in some cases.
The only way to replace an attachment is to delete it and add it. Unfortunately, that will move it to the end of the list -- attachments are always displayed in the order they were added.ThomsonMA wrote:Also, if a section of our manual is updated, I'd really like to be able to change an attachment while keeping its name and order in the list intact. Is there a way to replace an attachment?
No. As I said above, they are simply displayed in the order they were added.ThomsonMA wrote:Finally, is there a way to cause all attachments to be listed in sorted order? (I've named the various .pdf files with a consistent naming scheme: S<section#>-<item#>-name.pdf so that sorting the names will put them in the proper order.)
I think you have some good suggestions for improving the Newsletter; you might want to make those suggestions using the Submit Feedback link.
Questions that can benefit the larger community should be asked in a public forum, not a private message.
Thank you for the prompt reply.
I have used both the drop mode and the "add attachments" button, with the same results.
I've attached two screen shots, one in edit mode where I have just added four new files to the bottom of the list (attachments 42-45), but have not clicked the "save" button yet. The second screen shot is after the post was saved, I opened the item and expanded the list of attachments. As you can see, the last four items I just added are displayed as "file" rather than by their file names.
Is this a bug or am I missing something? I don't think there's anything weird about the file names.
I have used both the drop mode and the "add attachments" button, with the same results.
I've attached two screen shots, one in edit mode where I have just added four new files to the bottom of the list (attachments 42-45), but have not clicked the "save" button yet. The second screen shot is after the post was saved, I opened the item and expanded the list of attachments. As you can see, the last four items I just added are displayed as "file" rather than by their file names.
Is this a bug or am I missing something? I don't think there's anything weird about the file names.
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SorensonMi
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Sample document that gets uploaded as "file"
Here is one of the documents that ended up listed as "file". As noted, if I click on the name ("file") and download the attachment, and then rename it to have a .pdf extension, it will open correctly and each attachment named "file" is really different. All that appears wrong is that the name of the uploaded file is lost.
Aha! I found the answer to my problem in another post: https://tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.p ... recognised
Every one of the last 12 attachments that I had end up as "file" had an embedded period, followed somewhere later by a space. When I renamed those attachments to eliminate the period, they all uploaded correctly with the proper names.
Every one of the last 12 attachments that I had end up as "file" had an embedded period, followed somewhere later by a space. When I renamed those attachments to eliminate the period, they all uploaded correctly with the proper names.