Hello,
My client uses Umbraco Media to upload documents. These documents are displayed on the website via the media picker. Now my client needs to update these documents every few weeks. Within Umbraco that is no problem because they can just go to the media item, click on remove file and upload a different version. Because of the use of umbraco media picker the site is always finding the right url.
The problem is that the client also distributes the url’s to these documents in newsletters etc, things outside the site. So when the client uploads a document and changes it later (with a different file name) the old url will no longer work.
Now to solve this problem i suggested the client uploads the new file with the exact same filename. That will result in the exact same url. This will work but it is a bit difficult for them and they are affraid it will be very error sensitive.
Now my question is; is there a way to approach a file via a url that doens’t contain the filename. That it will look at the id of the media item for example, and find the right url that way?
Or is there a completely different way to change documents and keep a consistent url?
Hope someone has an idea on how to approach this problem.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://our.umbraco.com/forum/108838-changing-file-and-filename-but-maintaining-the-same-url-within-umbraco