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suppress "This site is trying to open" prompt
Does anyone know how to suppress the "This site is trying to open" prompt for a specific site?
Background.
We are loving Edge so far but when trying to open documents from <company>.sharepoint.com (word excel powerpoint etc) we get want to suppress the prompt.
Adding the specific protocol to the URLAllowList removes the prompt.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\URLAllowlist\1=ms-word:*
but this has 2 issues,
1) we need to set this for every document type
2) this will presumably not prompt when opening a word document from ANY url
Am I missing something here?
TIA
Kris
Show the Always open ... option by GP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#externalprotocoldialogshowalwaysopencheckbox
Noel Burgess
I have looked at that but Presumably that will also suppress the prompt for all sites not just your sharepoint portal.A rather dangerous option with office documents.
You (As admin ) also dont have any control over what people suppress the prompted for.
KrisSmith wrote:I have looked at that but Presumably that will also suppress the prompt for all sites not just your sharepoint portal.
I may have misunderstood your query. I thought you were trying to find a way of preventing the prompt from appearing; it can be very annoying if it is displayed frequently as you go about your daily business. This is what the GP does.
You'd have to test it, of course, but my reading of the policy is that it will show the Always open ... option for the site concerned until it is selected. Thereafter, no prompt and the resource opens on selection. In other words, the prompt is suppressed - as you appeared to want to happen.
- Hi,
Which Edge channel are you using? KrisSmith One of our engineering managers took a look at this and wanted you to give the following a try:
"Can you check out the following on an Edge canary build 82.0.425.0 or greater?
https://textslashplain.com/2020/02/20/bypassing-appprotocol-prompts/
Settings this flag should you one step closer to having the prompt suppressed."
Please let us know if that does the trick for you!
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft EdgeDeleted
Thank you,
This flag does what it claims and does indeed get us one step closer to what I want.
I would like to be able to pre define a list of sites that don't prompt for any filetypes.
I'd rather not let end users have the "dont prompt again" option as they don't all click responsibly 😉
I guess with this flag they would need to ok it for every site they visit.
KrisSmith I'm so glad to hear that it's getting closer to your desired state. And that's a great point; here's the team's answer.
"Yes, this is a fair ask and something we're discussing. But, in actuality, you will likely not have to do this too many times for the MS Office web apps, because the same origin is used by the web app regardless of the SharePoint site. So, it, in theory, should be one opt-in for Word, one for Excel, one for PowerPoint, one for Outlook, one for Teams, etc. So, a lot better than what it was, and hopefully not unmanageable while we explore other options."
I hope that helps clarify things, and please continue to give us feedback--either here or through the browser--about this. And if this solution doesn't work as intended, we'd love to know about that too.
Thanks,
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
