Opening PDFs in a lightbox instead of download

Opens fine in flightbox for me in all browsers. Please show me your shortcode

This is the shortcode showing up: [file_away fw_shortcode_id=”1″] . I have a main folder called files that goes to a subfolder called moneyline that goes to multiple subfolders of years (ex. 2012) and then the files are in those folders. When I click on the file, it only brings up a download option.

You’re using file away as integrated through your theme. You’ll have to ask your theme support for help, as I don’t know what options they gave you in their integration module.

The theme support says that it isn’t anything with the theme and to check back with you. I went into the inc.flightbox.php file and added pdf to the images, and that took care of the download coming up, but the pdf doesn’t show up, its just an icon that looks like a missing image. Can you offer any help with this?

That won’t work. PDF requires its own category. You need to undo the change you made as it’s messing things up.

If the theme has flightbox set to images, rather than multi, then it is a theme issue. Your options are: images, videos, pdfs, multi

If you want pdfs AND images in your flightbox, then your shortcode should include: flightbox=”multi”

If your theme is hardcoding flightbox=”images” then they need to tell you how to modify it, or how to include your own custom [fileaway] shortcode within their framework.

I undid it, and the theme is using multi, but I am just trying to get the pdf to open in a new window instead of just a download box coming up. I’ve tried just about everything I can think of. When I look at the code in the inspect element, it shows that it is set to open in a new window, but it doesn’t, so something is overwriting it, but I can’t figure out what. I have disabled all plugins and everything I could and nothing is working.

I figured it out, I disabled the statistics and that did it.