Generate Public URL for Salesforce Files

Hello friends, today we are going to discuss How to Generates Public URLs for Salesforce Files. So we can show these files without salesforce login.

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You can handle this very efficiently with Salesforce by using the Content Delivery object; API Name: ContentDistribution.

Creating a record on the ContentDistribution object with a link to the respective ContentVersion Id is sufficient for exposing a file publicly.

Two fields are automatically populated when you create a record of the ContentDistribution type, namely DistributionPublicUrl and ContentDownloadUrl.

DistributionPublicUrl link can be preview and there is a download link so you can also download this.

Process :

There are two options that you can create this

Manually Way : you need to go files and open any file there is a button named “Public link” click on this and we can get a public link and share to another user.

2.By Apex :

GeneratePublicUrl.cls :

public class GeneratePublicUrl {

    public static void generatePublicLink(Id contentDocumentId){
        /* Getting ContentVersion file using ContentDocument Id */
        ContentVersion cv = [SELECT Id, Title FROM ContentVersion WHERE ContentDocumentId = :contentDocumentId];

        /* Creating ContentDistribution record */
        ContentDistribution conDis = new ContentDistribution();
        conDis.Name = cv.Title;
        conDis.ContentVersionId = cv.Id;
        conDis.PreferencesAllowViewInBrowser= true;
        insert conDis;
    }
}

Output :

Reference :

1. ContentDistribution