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Brass Contributor

Jan 18, 2018

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Sharepoint Online Check Out Behavior Question

I'm not seeing a clear answer to this anywhere so hoping someone can provide a definitive answer. In our publishing site we have turned on check out/check in on pages and documents to help with versi...

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Dean_Gross
Jan 18, 2018
Take a look at the "Default open behavior for browser-enabled documents" setting for the library. If you have it set to open in browser, the visitors should not be getting that prompt

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Jan 18, 2018

Take a look at the "Default open behavior for browser-enabled documents" setting for the library. If you have it set to open in browser, the visitors should not be getting that prompt

Steve Curtis
Copper Contributor
Mar 01, 2018
Dean, Andrew,

Interesting to read this. It seems like I am experiencing the same issue and have been searching for a resolution for a while. Unfortunately, due to the size of some of my files I do not simply want to set the default to opening files online. Do you have any other insight to offer as to the cause of the problem? Note that all other users of the same site have no problems.

Thanks.
Andrew Striemer
Brass Contributor
Jan 22, 2018
Dean,

Thanks for that option. That will work for us. I am still curious why when the customers open in the client instead of the browser they get that message even if they have read only permission (seems like they shouldn't to us). But this will definitely work for us.

Thanks,

Andy