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romanbrun
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Oct 06, 2022
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Links to SPO always open in browser - I need native app by default

I can two crucial issues with links in SPO.   1. With the feature in SPO I can set, that Office documents always open within the Desktop app.  --> This feature doesn't work when I send a link to s...
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  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    Oct 07, 2022
    The short answer is, you cannot. Specially since it seems you're trying to link .dmg files. Unless these apps have support for talking to SharePoint directly to edit files, which I'm not aware of them having that you're only option is utilizing OneDrive sync clients and Modifying files direct that way.

    Or what we have done in the past with files like this is utilize a tool such as ZeeDrive to create "Network Drives" to the dmg files etc. And others could share file links like you have in your example to locations they have access to in ZeeDrive.

    If the app you have can open SharePoint dmg files directly from the open menu some how, then you might be able to finagle something with a URL shortener etc. to allow the different URL formats to tell the OS to open the file, but that's assuming those can open a web link to edit files that way, which not many 3rd party apps do.

    Anyway, I know it's not the answer you were hoping for but working with 3rd party file types is a bit tricky vs. office files.

    It's OneDrive sync and ZeeDrive for us and works ok.
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ganeshsanap
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Oct 06, 2022

romanbrun

 

1. May not be exactly what you are looking for, but you can use Office URI Schemes to share the links to documents which will open office documents in desktop app. For example, below link will open the excel file in desktop app: 

 

ms-excel:ofv|u|https://contoso/Q4/budget.xls

 

 Where "https://contoso/Q4/budget.xls" is the URL of your excel file. You can find other URI schemes in above documentation.

 

2. Non office documents will not open in browser or respective desktop apps - this is a default behavior in SharePoint.

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    romanbrun
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 07, 2022

    ganeshsanap 

    Thanks for your reply.

     

    1. I found them aswell. But didn't get further how to add the uri-scheme-prefix by default. Would I need to adapt a registry entry? And is this only a possible solution for Office documents, but e.g. not PDF or other files (as far as I found out)?

     

    2. When I have a none-office file stored within a SPO and share a link to this file, it generates me a link like https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/SP1/Shared%20-Documents/General/Folder1/sampleFile.dmg 

    And yes, tries to opens it within a browser. And then asks me to download that file. What leads to duplication. 

    What I want is, that the file direct opens the corresponding desktop app. So, the same behaviour as if I would have stored the file on a file server, e.g. R:\Folder1\sampleFile.dmg .

    • ganeshsanap's avatar
      ganeshsanap
      MVP
      Oct 07, 2022

      romanbrun For office documents, you can use URI schemes while sharing the document links (whether you are sharing via email or adding links on any site).

       

      For non-office files: try adding ?Web=1 at the end of URL and see if it works for you. File URL format:

       

      https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteName/Shared%20Documents/Document.docx?Web=1

       

      OR you have to share the file URLs in this format: 

       

      https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteName/Shared Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=/sites/siteName/Shared Documents/MyImage.png&parent=/sites/siteName/Shared Documents

       

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        romanbrun
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        Oct 07, 2022

        ganeshsanap 

        With "you can use URI schemes while sharing the document links" I assume you mean, that i add this manually, correct? This wouldn't work for our end-users... I need a solution where it is added by default.

         

        Adding  ?Web=1 still adds within the browser

         

        Changing the URL from:

        https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/sites/sp1/Freigegebene%20Dokumente/General/sample.xlsx?d=w1fef9a8994034f7234adsf05db45e05&csf=1&web=1&e=ora7Ef

        to:

        https://contoso.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/sites/sp1/Freigegebene Dokumente/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=sites/sp1/Freigegebene Dokumente/General/sample.xlsx&parent=sites/sp1/Freigegebene Dokumente

         

        Leads to the message saying "element not found"

         

         

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