Uploading word documents

[Simon.AU]

I'm trying to upload an MS Office doc (Word .docx) to the Media section of the ACP (Pages => Media) but I'm receiving an IPB error:

Yet when I look in the "Allowed file types" settings (Settings => Posting => General => Attachements) I dont' have any restrictions set:

I don't need forum posts to be allowed to upload Office docs (though it would be handy for the admin group), but I do need to be able to create attachments for some pages (I do this via the Media section of the ACP). Is there a way to enable Office docs to be served in this way?

[opentype]

The Pages media function has nothing to do with attachments. You can however use attachments on pages as well – wherever there is an editor field. 

[Simon.AU]

1 hour ago, opentype said:

The Pages media function has nothing to do with attachments. You can however use attachments on pages as well – wherever there is an editor field. 

I see, thanks. Do you know where the settings for the allowed pages media types are?

[Marc]

There would be no way in which to change what media types are allowed in that area. This area is for web viewable media, in which docx would not be one of those.

[Simon.AU]

Sorry I think things may have gotten a bit mixed up here... I'm a bit confused... I'm just trying to upload an office document in a way that can be attached to a page. I just assumed the Media section was the way to handle this - that's why I mentioned it in my post. If it's not, is there another way I should be going?

[opentype]

You need to give a better description of what kind of page that is, so we can tell you what options apply. 

[Randy Calvert]

Instead of adding it to the media library, you can just literally add it as an attachment to the article.  See attached as an example of a Word document (.docx).  

Sample.docx

You can do the same thing in a Pages article and include an attachment right from the editor.  (I tested this on one of my Pages articles to confirm this.)

Edited July 22, 2022 by Randy Calvert

[Simon.AU]

I see, thanks for that Randy.

Unfortunately it looks like I've found a corner case again. I'm trying to add custom HTML, which cannot be done via the usual page builder/WYSIWYG as far as I know, so I'm using a custom block.

I realise that blocks can be stacked with WYSIWYG components within a page template, but I need to add links within my custom block.

So I was using the media library because there is standard syntax for including a file download (eg. {media="8"} )

I will probably create a hidden page for my downloads, attach the files via a WYSIWYG block, and then use the media="" syntax... but this seems a bit hacky. If anyone sees that I'm going wrong please let me know.

[Marc]

Ive moved this to developer connection for you, as you are looking for more technical answers here