How to upload a PDF to your website's main menu or footer (eg: CMP, TPO, or ICO membership certificate)

Owned by Nathan Birch (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 04, 2023 by Elliott
4 min read

You may want to add a PDF that can be accessed through your website. These PDFs might be for certificates such as:

  • Client Money Protection (CMP) membership certificate or other deposit protection scheme

  • The Property Ombudsman (TPO) membership certificate

  • Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) membership certificate

  • Other membership schemes you may be a part of

  • PDFs of information about your business, such as brochures, complaints procedures, or a price list of charges

VIA allows you to upload media documents to your software. Once uploaded, the document then has a unique URL address which you can use to view the document online at anytime. Once you have uploaded the document, you can then link to it in any way you need. The most common ways people choose to link to a document is through either the main menu or the footer of the website.

To upload this PDF to your website's main menu

  • Go to Website > Links

  • Click the Add button

  • Enter the various fields:

    • Name: enter a name for your link. Enter a name that is self descriptive so it can easily be found in future, eg: CMP-certificate

    • Click the Visible tick box (keeping this box unticked will simply save it as a draft)

    • Label: enter the label as you want it to appear within your main menu, eg: CMP Certificate

    • In the Media section, upload your PDF by dragging and dropping your file into the grey box, or click the box to select your file from your computer's file uploader. Once the file has uploaded and can be seen in the Media section. Click the magnifying glass icon. This will open your newly uploaded PDF in a new browser tab. Copy this URL

    • In the URL section, paste the URL you have just copied. This will link the your new menu tab to the PDF which is now hosted online

    • Click Save & Close

  • Go to Website > Links

  • Search for mainmenu

  • Double click the mainmenu item that displays in the list, or right click and select edit

  • Scroll to the Links field. Here you will see all of the main tabs of your website menu as they display on your website

    • To upload your new PDF link to the main menu tabs, simply start typing the name of your new link, and click on the appropriate link that appears in the drop down menu. To change the order of your menu, simply drag and drop the link you've added (the menu links display from left to right as you see them). Click Save & Close

    • To upload your new PDF link as a drop down option from one of the main menu tabs. Click into the appropriate main menu tab that you want to add your new PDF link as a drop down from. This will open a new tab. Again, scroll to the links field and simply start typing the name of your new link, and click on the appropriate link that appears in the drop down menu. To change the order of your menu, simply drag and drop the link you've added (the menu links display from left to right as you see them). Click Save & Close

 

  • Go to Website > Links

  • Click the Add button

  • Enter the various fields:

    • Name: enter a name for your link. Enter a name that is self descriptive so it can easily be found in future, eg: CMP-certificate

    • Click the Visible tick box (keeping this box unticked will simply save it as a draft)

    • Label: enter the label as you want it to appear within your main menu, eg: CMP Certificate

    • In the Media section, upload your PDF by dragging and dropping your file into the grey box, or click the box to select your file from your computer's file uploader. Once the file has uploaded and can be seen in the Media section. Click the magnifying glass icon. This will open your newly uploaded PDF in a new browser tab. Copy this URL

    • In the URL section, paste the URL you have just copied. This will link the your new menu tab to the PDF which is now hosted online

    • Click Save & Close

  • Go to Website > Links

  • Search for footer

  • Double click the footer item that display in the list, or right click and select edit

    • To upload your new PDF link to one of the columns of text in your footer Click into the appropriate footer tab column that you want to add your new PDF link as an option to. This will open a new tab. Again, scroll to the links field and simply start typing the name of your new link, and click on the appropriate link that appears in the drop down menu. To change the order of your menu, simply drag and drop the link you've added (the menu links display from left to right as you see them). Click Save & Close

PLEASE NOTE: You do not have to create separate links to be used in the main menu and the footer. Any link you create can be used in both the main menu and the footer of your website. VIA is designed so you can use one set of content across multiple areas of your website.