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view only permission for communication sites
Hi,
i have created a communication site and i dont want the documents to be downloaded by the visitors.
However, i have not found the view-only permission access level.
Could you please...
Also, I tried various permutations of my custom View Only permission level. When I exactly replicated the native View Only. It sort of worked ("Open in Word" was hidden from menu, but Download was still displayed). Then I tweaked a couple of permissions and I got it to hide the Download option. But 5 minutes later I did a page refresh and my user was redirected to the access denied page. Now I get that pretty consistently.
We had similar request and did the best I could using the following
1. Created a view that removed the checkbox of individual documents
2. Enabled Auditing > log the view of all items
3. Library settings > advanced settings > open files in browser
I wasn't able to lock users down from downloading, but did the best I could to have them only 'view' them in browser. Hope this helps