Please implement this!

Clients use our site to discover new case studies and publications. We offer full versions via download links on cms pages, and I hate to think of the user experience for them finding these junk PDF filenames on their desktop. It looks unprofessional and they are less likely to re-share with their colleagues in that form.

Any updates on this?

This can be done with some custom code. Embed the following script after the "Download File" button element:
<script>

document.getElementById('downloadButton').addEventListener('click', function() {

var fileNameWithPrefix = this.getAttribute('data-file');

var fileName = fileNameWithPrefix.substring(fileNameWithPrefix.indexOf('_') + 1);

// Decode the filename to replace '%20' with actual spaces

fileName = decodeURIComponent(fileName);

// Create a temporary link element

var link = document.createElement('a');

link.href = 'path_to_download/' + fileName; // Replace 'path_to_download/' with your actual download path

link.setAttribute('download', fileName); // Set the download attribute to specify filename

link.style.display = 'none';

document.body.appendChild(link);

// Trigger the download

link.click();

// Cleanup: remove the temporary link element

document.body.removeChild(link);

});

</script>

And create a custom element set as a button:
<button id="downloadButton" data-file="{{wf {&quot;path&quot;:&quot;file-to-download&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;FileRef&quot;\} }}" class="button">Download File</button>
replacing {{wf {&quot;path&quot;:&quot;file-to-download&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;FileRef&quot;\} }} with the relevant field from your cms

I just wanted to emphasize how important this would be for Webflow users. We're looking forward to this update!

As an enterprise customer, it's disappointing to see this has been requested since 2017 and has not been addressed yet.

Please add this to your roadmap. File names should not be prepended with a random string of characters, and we should have the option to have files under our own custom domain name.

Need this one very badly. Cant be showing webflow or other domain other than our client domain.

We need exactly what Kevin has described below. Ay updates on when this will be in beta would be highly appreciated.

lo veo totalmente fundamental, esto me limita hacer mucho. Me parece muy poco profesional tener los archivos con ese dominio.

THIS IS CRITICAL

Businesses need this functionality to link directly to PDFs customers frequently access. We need the following features:

• Asset URLs need to be customizable and come from our custom domain rather than the CDN domain. This is necessary for SEO, and security concerns (Customers might question wether the asset really belongs to the business if the URLs don't match).

• Assets need the ability to be replaced whilst maintaining the same URL. Imagine posting the Asset link to external sources and then having to make a revision to the asset. Now you have to go and replace all the extrernal source links. (# of Assets × external sources × revisions and it starts getting ridiculous).

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Hello webflow team, Please add this.

Please the feature is so important and basic.After all efforts of work facing with such problem is not serious.

Webflow people...please address this. I'm surprised this hasn't been worked in yet after years of people asking for it.

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This is really basic indeed, such a pain when you make all efforts for having a great experience, clean stuff and your customers download pdf and img with apojnkjfblfd55454dssqdm name in it. 6 years I see this issue is pending, this doesn't sound serious really !

Need to get on with this one, becoming a joke that assets on my site load from uploads.assets.webflows-nans-garage.org/gibberishnumers32423423423-cleanpdf.pdf

This is a crucial element to serving images, css, and js with caching and web friendly images. Not sure why it is not included with webflow custom domain plans.

We use PDFs for a lot of our information here and in these cases, the resources in question are PDF documents that have been uploaded to the Resources. Ideally, the slug link would stay the same even if we swap out the PDF that the link directs to. Right now, we have to manually change any button linked to a PDF with the "hard" location of that PDF. It would be much easier to simply edit the resource and change the PDF attached there while leaving all the other fields the same.

This is essential and holding me back from launching a project on Webflow