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I'm using Sitecore 9 and SXA 1.7.

I have a few PDF files that I have uploaded into media library/files/myfolder, and an "instructions" template whose fields are title (type: single line text), Date (type: date), description (type: single line text), and file (type: file).

I have created a few items of type "instructions", and in each of their "file" fields there is one PDF file from the media library/files/myfolder path.

My question is: I created a search results component that searched for these "instructions" items, and I need it to view a download link for these PDF files. Specifically, to view a link that the user can click on, which opens the related PDF file in a new tab or so.

So far I've used the rendering variant to display each item's Name and Date, but I do not know how to show a download link for the PDF file. I have tried using reference->file in the rendering variant, but it shows nothing on the results page.

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Did you create variant items under reference field? You need to display something in order to render a link.

It works fine on my machine. Here are screenshots with the setup:

Template enter image description here

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Media Library (Title field is not filled automatically) enter image description here

Variant (pass through: File) enter image description here

Results in EE enter image description here

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  • Thank you so much, that worked! I was struggling with showing the link and didn't think of just writing something and linking the variant to the Title field! I also searched a bit and found out how to stop the force download when I click on the PDF link (by changing the forceDownload attribute in Sitecore.config for pdf extension to false), now it opens the file in the same tab .. is there a way to open it in another tab onclick, which is my requirement?
    – Mie ElMansy
    Jun 28, 2018 at 9:21
  • I found the answer : I just set the "link attributes" field in the rendering variant to "href" --> "_blank" and now when i click on the link it opens in a new tab .. thank you!
    – Mie ElMansy
    Jun 28, 2018 at 10:42

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