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Nov 29, 2017

Links to Sharepoint documents set to download

Previously in Sharepoint (mere weeks ago), I was able to change links to Sharepoint documents to set to download, instead of having the document open in a browser.

 

I would change the URL containing "guestaccess.aspx" to "download.aspx".

 

However, when I now retrieve a link to a document from Sharepoint, it looks very different (and shorter).

 

It looks like the following:

https://www.website.com/:x:/s/IntraActive/Path/Document-code

 

The URL no longer contains "guestaccess.aspx", I therefore am not able to set the document to download. 

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

  • In SPO you should now be able to download Office documents from inside the Office Online apps that open them.

    Other documents can be downloaded directly and/or by using the apps that open them.

    So, AFAIK, there is no need to change manually the URL.

    Hope it helps...

  • Fernando_Chagas's avatar
    Fernando_Chagas
    Copper Contributor

    I got the download link as following:

     

    -right click in the document that is in the lybrary

    -download

    -then click in the 3 dots of the downloaded file

    -click in: copy download link

     

     

     

    • FG_TFS's avatar
      FG_TFS
      Brass Contributor
      This does NOT look like Chrome - is it Edge?
      • MSUM_Clifferton's avatar
        MSUM_Clifferton
        Brass Contributor

        The URL i got from this process (copy download link) looks like this.

        site url/_layouts/15/download.aspx?SourceURL=encoded url starting after sharepoint.com

        Here's an example of an encoded URL that would work in the box above. It has a leading slash(%2F).
        %2Fsites%2FSITE%2DNAME%2DWITH%2DSPACES%2FLIBRARY%2FFile%5FName%5FWith%5FUnderscores%2Ezip

  • the &download=1 works fine on Chrome.

    But we switched to Microsoft Edge (Chronium). And there it just opens the file instead as read only. (Without downloading first). Any one know something that works on Edge? 

      • Herland Bjørnsbror's avatar
        Herland Bjørnsbror
        Copper Contributor

        Greg_Hitchon Found a general solution 🙂

        In sharepoint library, right click on the file, download file, CTRL + J, Then right click file and copy link. Use that link for download only in a webpage.

  • Have not seen that yet but your url looks like it is first going to the graph

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