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Setting up a Document Library as a Catalog
Hey Mara, sorry for the delay.
The anonymous option in the catalog settings is for the catalog in the search index and not the actual documents.
That's why users can see the documents in the search results, since it does not do any security trimming, but when they click on the url (and physically go to the document to download/open it) they get access is denied. This is how it is designed and is the way it worked on On-Premises too, is it possible you had set permissions differently before?
You have no other workaround but to grant your users access to the documents you want them to access.
When turning regular Lists into catalogs, you don't need to since people don't need to physically access anything. Once the metadata is stored in the index, they have/see everything about the list item.
Hi Benjamin, no worries.
Your articles on Sharegate pointed me to the right direction too :-).Thanks a lot for your response confirming. I ended up doing exactly that, added "everyone" to a group like "style resource readers"... and granted them "read only access" to these libraries. The users are able to open the documents without accessing the site or library where they originated and that's all I needed.
