Marketplace Digital Goods
The digital goods market place seems to require everything be in ZIP format. Has anyone been able to make PDF work? I want to run a PDF library on my site.
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Hello.
Theoretically it's possible. Storage in Market app which is used to upload and store ZIP archives should be modified to accept PDF instead of ZIP. It can be done in DB -> 'sys_objects_storage' table. Search for object with 'bx_market_files' name and replace zip in 'ext_allow' field with pdf. Then you need to clear cache in Studio -> Dashboard and test.
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Best Regards
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Do you mean people paying but only being able to read the PDF files online? If you want the digital items to be available for download then ZIP files would be a better format to package and store without taking up as much space during downloads and uploads.
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Do you mean people paying but only being able to read the PDF files online? If you want the digital items to be available for download then ZIP files would be a better format to package and store without taking up as much space during downloads and uploads.
Or perhaps used Paid Levels to restrict access to certain sections of your site, using Files module perhaps, enabling paid users to access / download premium content.
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All good options, thanks guys. In this case, most of our users are mobile - so they really want to open the site and click 'view' or 'download' a PDF directly.
Will work on this in December over the holidays likely. Will let you know how it comes out. We are looking at potentially a 800-1000 digital book library.