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How to enable Downloading support in Kodular Web Viewer?

How to enable Downloading support in Kodular Web Viewer?

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How to enable Downloading support in Kodular Web Viewer?

What is Web Viewer?


Web viewer is a component provided to us in Kodular Creator. This component can be found under the layouts option in the views section. This is a component that enable user to surf through Website and you can set any Webpage visible to viewer but it doesn't perform completely like a Browser and this doesn't have all function like a browser. So, if we want to enable any user to download a file we have to set some extra blocks. In this article we will be learning how to enable this function in Web viewer.

Benefits of enabling download option in Kodular;


We can be accessible to many benefits if we enable downloading support in Kodular Web viewer. For example In my case i used this function in my browser which I made about two years ago. I can say that this will be a very helpful function during any application development. 


What do we need to enable downloading in Web viewer in Kodular Creator?

For enabling download from webviewer we need a Webviewer and a download component found in connectivity option in Kodular. We don't need any of external resources for enabling download support in Web Viewer. So you need a webviewer from where a user can access for any file to download then we will fetch the Download URL from Web Viewer to start downloading the file. Before we start our tutorial I recommend you to add both these Components in your project.


How to initiate download from Web Viewer?

For initiating Download you need to add these blocks in your project to initiate download whenever Web Viewer needs. 

Step 1: Find when we need to initiate Download;


First we have to find when do we need to initiate the download. For this open Blocks section and click on Web viewer. Now look for the block "when Web-viewer on Download start" and drag and drop this block.

On download start





Step 2: Call Download component to Get URL;

Second step is that we have to call Download component to set the Download URL as the URL given by "when Web-viewer on Download start".

Get file URL







Now we have set the download URL and we are able to start Download from this URL.

Step 3: Call Start Download;

The last step to add download support is to add the Start Download option.

Start download








Now we have completely set our blocks to initiate download from Web Viewer.

Some extra features of download option:

1. Show Notification

Block:
Show notification



This sets whether to show notification about download in Device.

2. Save File as

Block:
Save file as




This blocks sets the name of the file to be downloaded.

3. Scan by media Scanner

Block:
Scan file type



This sets whether to scan the file type and add it to it's section in file manager of device.

4. On download completed

Block:
When Download completed







This block give us the File path, File Name and File size when download completed.

So, these were the main blocks of Download component in kodular creator and how to enable download in Web Viewer. That's all for today article, We will be back with another useful tutorial. Till then.....

Happy Koding.....

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