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5) Save your document and test your link as before.

Getting a PDF to appear in the menu structure

Let's say you want a PDF to exist in the menu somewhere, not on a page.

We'll start a Basic Page and upload a PDF the usual way. We will save the page as published, which is different than the way we would go about this in Drupal 7, where we wouldn't have to save a page). We'll go to the File list, get the url for the file, and go into the menu structure and add the url to the PDF to the menu.

1) Go to Add Content and select Basic Page (or any content type with the text editor field, really).
2) Using the instructions for Inserting a PDF file via the link icon, or the one using the file button, upload a PDF.
3) Save the page as unpublished. Having a page, even if unpublished, tells Drupal that the file is permanent rather than temporary.

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4) Go to Content and Look for the File tab.If you don't see this "File" tab, put in a ticket to the web team via helpdesk.franklin.uga.edu.

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5) Under the file tab, we see our recently uploaded file.

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6) Click on the file to get the url. We only want the part after the .edu. So starting at "/sites/default/files/etc..."

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7) Go to the menu structure and click "Add Link."

You can access via Structure >> Menus >> Main Menu, or via the Shortcut links in the main menu.

For more information on working with menus, click here

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8) Paste your url, give the link a title, and decide where it will go. Save the link.

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9) You will see your PDF in the menu structure.

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Deleting PDFs permanently

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