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Links to Sharepoint documents set to download
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...
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...
it worked with the &download=1
🙂
- Sadly no Chani
Also performance wise the platform is slow, I’m guessing because the file path is strewn with access rights. - Hi Chani,
Sadly no, I really hoped I could. That said I’m finding the speed of SP quite slow, I’m guessing it’s because of the permissions rather than anything else. Nicholas English Did you figure this out by any chance? I'm facing the same request from one of my clients and can't figure out how to make an external link downloadable
in the new SPO link to anyone URLS don't have a file extension -
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If your link is to a document you can do this. Remove everything after the document extension and add this ?web=0.
Well, for some reason, now they work for me by appending &download=1 to the "short link." I tried it with a PPTX, and a ZIP file.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. I tried it now using a link from a SharePoint site, and I got a "This link has been removed" message page.
So, it worked from my OneDrive for Business, but not from a SharePoint Team site that allows external sharing. This isn't good. It's the latter scenario that we want to use more.
Hi Christopher,
I'm using an "Anyone" link for external access. After I disabled short URLs, the syntax is as follows. I removed the protocol so this site doesn't format it as a real link.
//company-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mariocajina_company_com/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=1234567890&authkey=AUth_Key_x
EDIT: I'm trying links to individual files. I tried to a PDF and to a PPTX.
- Ps. My short URLs are enabled so it works with those on. You are sharing a file and not folderers right? What share option are you using?
- I just tested an anyone link from OneDrive and Sharepoint and by fading &download=1 to both links it made the files download right away.
I disabled short links, and then tried it with a new link, and I get a "This link has been removed" message.
Why is this such a chore? Having a download only link should be an option.
- If you disable the short URLs it will. Not sure if that breaks existing links but I would test if possible if you wanted that to work.
- Your suggestion didn't work. Thanks, though.
- Add ?download=1 or &download=1 at end of url can force download on office URLs.
- Can you share what was your solution? I'm trying to figure this out. We want to send external links that will trigger a download, but O365 only opens a document in the browser (even ZIP files).
Exactly. Found other way for the download of the ASPX :-) using PNP and the latest schema somehow my powershell was not updated yet.
thanks again.
AFAIK, no.
The point is that when you click on an ASPX file, it is directly opened (i.e. rendered) by the browser.
What would be necessary, actually, is a right-click action...
Thanks Salvatore Biscari missed that one :-) is it also possible for ASPX? like modern pages?
