Embedding Documents in DataPages

You could embed a variety of documents in your details pages similar to the way you can embed an image. With this method you can embed the following file types at this time:

• Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
• Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
• Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
• Apple Pages (.PAGES)
• Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
• Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
• Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
• Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
• PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
• TrueType (.TTF)
• XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
• Archive file types (.ZIP and .RAR)

This method requires the files to be outside of the database. If your files are not sensitive in nature, you can utilize Caspio’s High Usage FileStor to have your uploaded files automatically moved to a web space.

In this example we setup a table with two Text-255 fields, one for the link to the file and the other for its description.

Prerequisites

This method requires the files to be outside of the database. If your files are not sensitive in nature, you can utilize Caspio’s High Usage FileStor to have your uploaded files automatically moved to a web space. 

Steps:

1. Create a data source table. In this example, we set up a table with two Text(255) fields, one for the link to the file and the other for its description.