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Get Formidable Forms Lite Now. This article may contain affiliate links. Once in a while, we earn commissions from those links. But we only recommend products we like, with or without commissions. This doesn't test that the email is valid, I know I've done this before with your help pointing to the correct article, but months later can't find it Hi Craig, Sorry we missed your comment!
Here are the instructions to verify an email address. Instead of showing another form, you can show the files instead. Good article. I have been using Forms to collect information for years and have settled on Formidable for the last few years as the only one I use.
Collecting email addresses is a must and really simple to do. I've only just started to use Formidable and the functionality, and supporting documentation has been excellent. Thank you for this guide. Another similar option that I've used which also works great is to use the "Send Email" action, which allows you to include a file attachment an automated email back to the person filling out the form.
I like this option because you are guaranteed that the email address will be a valid one, or else they won't receive the email! Great suggestion. As long as you have a reliable email system set up so you can be confident emails are going through, this is a great option. This is a nice option. But how do you attach the file that has been uploaded via the "download manager form"? And if I send a mail with the file, can I do it without showing the view to the user?
You can send the uploaded files as an email attachment without a view. Or you can include the View shortcode right in the email. This is a built in feature of our pro version. If you need help with this, please reach out to our support, and we are happy to assist. For multiple white papers: I'd like to not ask the visitor to fill out the form if they have done before, but still I'd like to get a notification when they download additional files. Hi there, Thanks for your question.
It sounds like you're looking for more of a members-only area? Handle file download from ajax post Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 8 months ago.
Active 1 year, 2 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Pavle Predic Pavle Predic 5, 3 3 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. For those who read this article, read this post: stackoverflow.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. URL window. Improve this answer. Jonathan Amend Jonathan Amend I don't want to navigate away from the page. I want to perform the request in the background, process the response and present it to the client. If the server sends back headers like the other answer has, it opens in a new window - I've done it before. It would only navigate away if your server-side script returned HTML code — user PavlePredic did you end up figuring out how to manage both response scenarios, i.
JSON text response or download file response? Answer is not clear and the proposed solution doesn't work. Show 5 more comments. I faced the same issue and successfully solved it. My use-case is this. After fetching content as a blob binary , we are creating a downloadable URL and attaching it to invisible "a" link then clicking it.
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Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Mayur Padshala Mayur Padshala 1, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Hi, do I need to have jQuery 3. I'm also getting a blank pdf with both examples you gave. I am trying to get it to download a pdf file. Should work fine with all versions. Any errors on console might help to debug — Mayur Padshala. This worked for me using download. Tim Hettler Tim Hettler 1, 9 9 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. This helped, but I need to preserve the original filename.
I see the filename in the response headers under "Content-Disposition", but I can't find that value in the response object in the code. Setting link. See The MDN docs on the file input for more detail. Blob size is limited: stackoverflow. Update Sep 30, Months have passed since I posted this, finally I've found a better approach to speed things up when working with big base64 strings.
The jQuery File Download only redirect me to the url. So as I follow-up, I discovered that the file name cannot have spaces. I used the code that Perp provided thank you! When I'm viewing the page as a visitor, it doesn't start a download.
It just opens a new tab. I need it to download because this form does not have the same functionality when viewed with browser's automatic pdf viewer. Am I missing a step somewhere? If not, anyone know how to do this? I don't need it to be a part of a form. I'm just not sure how to create a download link in squarespace. Thank you for the code. It's working. But i want to download the file once the form is filled and submit button is clicked. Is it possible to do that?? If so, chat with me there and I can get you setup.
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Followers 0. Posted February 13, edited. So, I'd like the PDF to be automatically downloaded when the form is submitted. Is there some way to achieve this? As soon as the request is made via the iframe, an identical request via XHR is made. If the load event on the iframe fires, an error has occurred, abort the XHR request, and remove the iframe. If a XHR progress event fires, then downloading has probably started in the iframe, abort the XHR request, wait a few seconds, and then remove the iframe.
This allows for larger files to be downloaded without relying on a server-side cookie. There are several downsides with this approach: There are two separate requests made for the same information. The server can distinguish the XHR from the iframe by checking the incoming headers. If the server waits to send headers until the file data is ready, the XHR can roughly detect when the iframe has started to download even without CORS. The client has to guess as to when the download has actually started to remove the iframe from the DOM.
Can't send custom headers on the iframe. CubicleSoft CubicleSoft 1, 15 15 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Elmer Elmer 8, 1 1 gold badge 44 44 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges.
Still has the issue of switching window and returning which will cause the modal to hide. JQuery is supported but not required. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Jorge Paulo Jorge Paulo 3 3 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Art Geigel Art Geigel 1, 3 3 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 23 23 bronze badges. MB33 MB33 71 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. It's works perfectly. Thanks for this beatiful sample. I'm very late to the party but I'll put this up here if anyone else would like to know my solution: I had a real struggle with this exact problem but I found a viable solution using iframes I know, I know.
It's terrible but it works for a simple problem that I had I had an html page that launched a separate php script that generated the file and then downloaded it. Walker Boh Walker Boh 6 6 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. If the file is ready, do the download. If the file is not ready, show the progress. That sounds like the temporary-file approach I mentioned above. I might do something like this if it turns out my idea is impossible, but I was hoping to avoid it. Vladimir Salguero 4, 2 2 gold badges 37 37 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges.
Manuel Larrota Manuel Larrota 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Works but basically transforms data to Base64 on the memory before reconverting to binary and downloading. Not recommended for large files — Erdal G. How can I set the final downloaded filename to the filename which is fetched from url? In my experience, there are two ways to handle this: Set a short-lived cookie on the download, and have JavaScript continually check for its existence. Only real issue is getting the cookie lifetime right - too short and the JS can miss it, too long and it might cancel the download screens for other downloads.
Using JS to remove the cookie upon discovery usually fixes this. Not only do you know exactly when the file download finishes, if you use XHR you can use progress events to show a progress bar!
The problem with this method is that iOS Safari doesn't seem to handle downloading blobs right - you can convert the blob into a data URL with a FileReader and open that in a new window, but that's opening the file, not saving it. Sora Sora 7 7 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. I should clarify -- I"m not too concerned with when the download completes. If I can just identify when the download starts, that would be enough.
So here is what I do: Target the hidden iFrame as usual. Generate the content. Cache it with an absolute timeout in 2 minutes. Send a javascript redirect back to the calling client, essentially calling the generator page a second time. Remove the content from the cache and send it to the client. Here is what the codebehind looks like, which is all you really need. QueryString[ "data" ]! Write "Javascript to tell user there was a problem. AppendHeader "Pragma", "no-cache" ; Response. AppendHeader "content-size", data.
ToString ; Response. I am loading a file just for an example using System. Open using System. Length ]; reader. Read data, 0, data. Insert reportKey, data, null, DateTime. AddMinutes 5 , TimeSpan. Add "onload", "window. MarcLawrence MarcLawrence 5 5 bronze badges. Mihaela Rada Mihaela Rada 23 5 5 bronze badges. Some logic for downloading, returning a result The cookie is created by the JS script but it's not updated by the controller, it maintains the original value 0 , how can I update the cookie value without refreshing the page?
That's strange - can you ensure the name is exactly correct?
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