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Iron Contributor

Feb 28, 2019

Restricting views with anyone external sharing

I want to share a modern document library folder with anyone read only (i.e. external users). that works fine and they see what i expect them to see in the default view. But is there a way to stop a...

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MVP

Feb 28, 2019

You can't edit view as an anonymous user. The only case this would happen is if you share with someone with logged in credentials in your org that might have access, but testing it, with true anonymous account you can't do anything but work with the files.

Ian Cunningham
Iron Contributor
Feb 28, 2019
Sorry if I was not clear, I meant stop then switching to another pre-defined view not editing a view.
ChrisWebbTech wrote:
You can't edit view as an anonymous user. The only case this would happen is if you share with someone with logged in credentials in your org that might have access, but testing it, with true anonymous account you can't do anything but work with the files.
- Dean_Gross
  Silver Contributor
  Feb 28, 2019
  AFAIK, there is no way to keep someone from changing to a different view.
  
  A possible work around would be to created a dedicated page with the content displayed and only allow access to that page. I have not tested this.
  - Ian Cunningham
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 28, 2019
    Yes, I had considered another page but that would be difficult to explain to the less technical staff who may need to publish docs in this way.
    
    What would be nice, would be to be able to share with a URL that included the view. I can see that we will ahev situation's where the best default view for external viewing would be different form the one that might suit the work of most internal users. (I suppose your page idea could work that as well though).

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