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View All. Top Solution Authors. User Count. Let's review what exactly is going on and how to achieve your goal. GOAL : In a SharePoint document library, you want a handful of users to have permission to view and open files without the ability to download them. The problem with this "solution" is that it will not accomplish your end goal and cause additional issues in return. If we read the documentation from Microsoft on SharePoint permission levels, we find this description for View-Only:.
View pages, items, and documents. Any document that has a server-side file handler can be viewed in the browser but not downloaded. File types that do not have a server-side file handler cannot be opened in the browser , such as video files,.
Meaning, users will be able to browse libraries and see the files, but they will not be able to open them using Word or Excel on their computer. Other files, such as PDFs and certain images, will still prompt to open locally.
Additionally, "download here" does not mean any download will be blocked; it just means downloads will be made to the local Office application. The "download document" button will not be grayed out in the ribbon. Show only Search instead for. Did you mean:. Sign In. Deleted Not applicable. Dear community, I am trying to edit pdfs stored in a document library on sharepoint with no success.
Is this possible at all to do? Tags: PDF. Hi Carl, PDFs should be opened in your browser with no problems Hi Juan, Thank you for replying. Regards, Carl. Well, To do that, the only thing you can do unless there is a browser Plugin that allows to do it is to download the PDF file, edit it in your local PC and upload it again to the document librar.
Microsoft and Adobe are working hard to have a better integration of Adobe in Office , so we can expect improvements in PDF documents edition in Office in the future. Giacomo Rambaldi. Andrew Silcock. I agree it's really disappointing that we cannot force.
Like Juan says, hopefully, we will get some better integration soon. For some of our users, this is enough to stop them from using SharePoint. Doug Allen. It may not always be possible for all your documents but if they aren't too custom, you can open PDFs in Word.
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