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always open specific file types
we'd like to set automatically the option "always open files of this type" for several file types or URLs.
actually, the gpo only allows to show or hide the option in the user context when download / open a file.
is there a possibility to control this behaviour with GPO?
if a user set the option "alway open files of this type", this setting seems to be stored in the personal settings folder (data-folder) of edge and if the browser-cache is cleared, the setting is reseted.
Out-of-the box SharePoint lists have never been able to prevent clashes. What you will need to do is to build an app in Power Apps with Lists as the backend. I did this a few years ago for a lease car checkout app and a desk booking app. Within the app you can make sure that vehicles are not displayed in the gallery showing available vehicles if a vehicle's already checked out for a date.. There are quite a few videos on YouTube, for example Laura Rogers has a ery good video on how to tweak the asset checkout template in Power Apps at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-RMT1CI-U. There are also good videos on this by people like Shane Young and April Dunnam.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
Principal Consultant, SharePoint and Power Platform WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)
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This feature comes with V85
- AutoLaunchProtocolsFromOrigins - Define a list of protocols that can launch an external application from listed origins without prompting the user.
- AutoOpenAllowedForURLs - URLs where AutoOpenFileTypes can apply.
- AutoOpenFileTypes - List of file types that should be automatically opened on download
- Do you know if this will still download the file to the disk (requiring the user to clean up later) or open the file from temp files?
One of the big things we're missing in our business is the ability to just open/run files from temp files. There are a lot of times we need to open things, look at them once and never need it again...i didnt use or test it yet. I just read the policy descriptions with the new versions.
Until yet i used a modified master_preferences for handling ica files for citrix workspace app. But workspace app handles this files themself and delete it after use.
After rollout of V85 i will test and switch to GPO and hopefully throw away my master_preferences powershell in my installation sequence. My dream ist to use the installation out of box without install workarounds but this is still a long way to go.
