Organizing a Library of PDF files

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I have 130 or so PDF copies of a newsletter that I want to put on line. In my current website, they are stored in a folder and an html page hyperlinks to each document name. I know wix has the ability to upload to a Docs library. What is the best way to allow users to view the magazines.

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Hi,
You can add a table, upload the documents to a DB collection and connect the table to the collection.
Click here to learn more about Displaying Dynamic Content in a Table or Gallery.
I’ve added a screenshot for you to demonstrate:

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Good luck!
Tal

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When you say add a “table” do you mean the beta Lists and Grids?

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I’ve added a screenshot to demonstrate:

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Good luck,
Tal.

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Tal,
I created the database collection CVOA-magazines and added a test entry. Created a table and clicked on the connect to a database. I get the menu to connect to a dataset and click on choose. The collection named CVOA-Magazines does not show, I only see CVOA-members dataset 2? What did I miss here?

Thanks
JD

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Have you added the relevant dataset? I recommend checking out this article to learn more about Displaying Dynamic Content in a Table.

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Did you not read the first sentence or see the screen shot of the databases? I will go check out the article.

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The article was very clear about how to display data that is in your database. My problem here is that the Wix Editor does not even SEE this new database collection.

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That’s why I asked if you’ve added the relevant dataset to the page:

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Should the issue persists, please send the site URL and the page name to which the table was added.

Thanks,
Tal.

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Oops, my bad, I forgot that step. I did a membership database a couple of months back, so I have done this before. Thanks, I knew I had forgot something.

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Tal,
I thought I had done everything correctly, but at run time it gets stuck rendering the page…i.e… shows “Loading…” and never finishes.
Would you mind please taking a look?

page name: Back Issues CVOA Magazine

Thanks
JD

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All done and working great. seems I had fotgotten to set the page as a Dynamic page.

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One last question. How is this different from a Repeater

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A dynamic page allows you to display information from a single item at a time (although there are ways to display more items) while a repeater allows you to display multiple items with repeating layouts, such as a list of products with an image and a description.
A table is a form of a ‘primitive’ repeating layout.

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Would there be a way to show the thumbs from the PDF’s included in the db collection in the selected table/grid?