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Announcing New File Viewers Available for OneDrive For Business
No, these are thumbnail prevews only. It allows you to see the content of the files without having to open them to see. Since many Visio and Adobe format files are large, this makes it easier. These are the same viewers coming to W10 Fall Creators Edition. In order to open and edit, you will need a program to do so.
In e.g. Word Online, you can select "Edit in Word" - this opens Word 2016 and opens the original file at the document library level, and saves it back directly to SharePoint Online.
In case of non Office file types, like PDF, PSD, JPGs,... there is no "Open in <native application>" option (even if it is installed on the computer). Therefore (without utilizing sync) a user would have to download a copy of that file to their computer, open it manually in the native application, edit the file and save it, and have it upload and overwrite the original file. Correct?
I'm trying to understand if this a current limitation on Microsofts part (SharePoint Library action button <open in native app> doesn't exist) or if other software vendors (e.g.) Adobe have to do something, or possibly both.
In Adobe Acrobats case, I know I can open PDFs saved to SharePoint directly in Acrobat, by adding a Document Library location and then checking out the file and saving it directly back. But there is no way to actually do this from the SharePoint Document Library itself, or is there?
- Ivan, you nailed the issue down. I am missing the feature to open documents directly in the client application and so saving it, saves it back to the library.
- we're utilizing the offline sync method to circumvent the problem
MSG (emails) don't seem to work with the new OneDrive file viewer (they did initially I believe) and PDFs are sporadic. MOST PDFs work but all of them. When I say "most" I mean maybe 80-90% of them, which is really quite difficult to explain to users.
Any updates to why these formats have issues even though they're listed as supported? Note, email messages (msg) do not work at all.
That functionality would have to be baked in at the Windows level. I will pass this onto Windows engineering.
- Cool thanks, I'm actually expecting and improvement on the Windows-side with the fall creators update, since document libraries could be synced locally and therefore the native clients could open the files.
