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Nov 29, 2017

Links to Sharepoint documents set to download

Previously in Sharepoint (mere weeks ago), I was able to change links to Sharepoint documents to set to download, instead of having the document open in a browser.   I would change the URL contai...
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  • Salvatore Biscari's avatar
    Salvatore Biscari
    Nov 29, 2017

    In SPO you should now be able to download Office documents from inside the Office Online apps that open them.

    Other documents can be downloaded directly and/or by using the apps that open them.

    So, AFAIK, there is no need to change manually the URL.

    Hope it helps...

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Mario Cajina
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Can you share what was your solution? I'm trying to figure this out. We want to send external links that will trigger a download, but O365 only opens a document in the browser (even ZIP files).
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Deleted
Jul 11, 2018
Add ?download=1 or &download=1 at end of url can force download on office URLs.
  • Vasco_Ezeq's avatar
    Vasco_Ezeq
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 19, 2020

    it worked with the &download=1

    🙂

  • Nicholas English's avatar
    Nicholas English
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 03, 2019
    Sadly no Chani
    Also performance wise the platform is slow, I’m guessing because the file path is strewn with access rights.
  • Nicholas English's avatar
    Nicholas English
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 03, 2019
    Hi Chani,
    Sadly no, I really hoped I could. That said I’m finding the speed of SP quite slow, I’m guessing it’s because of the permissions rather than anything else.
  • Chani_Rose's avatar
    Chani_Rose
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 03, 2019

    Nicholas English Did you figure this out by any chance? I'm facing the same request from one of my clients and can't figure out how to make an external link downloadable

  • Kevin Nguyen's avatar
    Kevin Nguyen
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 19, 2018

    If your link is to a document you can do this. Remove everything after the document extension and add this ?web=0. 

  • Mario Cajina's avatar
    Mario Cajina
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 02, 2018

    Well, for some reason, now they work for me by appending &download=1 to the "short link." I tried it with a PPTX, and a ZIP file.

     

    EDIT: I spoke too soon. I tried it now using a link from a SharePoint site, and I got a "This link has been removed" message page.

     

    So, it worked from my OneDrive for Business, but not from a SharePoint Team site that allows external sharing. This isn't good. It's the latter scenario that we want to use more.

  • Mario Cajina's avatar
    Mario Cajina
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 12, 2018

    Hi Christopher,

     

    I'm using an "Anyone" link for external access. After I disabled short URLs, the syntax is as follows. I removed the protocol so this site doesn't format it as a real link.

     

    //company-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mariocajina_company_com/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=1234567890&authkey=AUth_Key_x

     

    EDIT: I'm trying links to individual files. I tried to a PDF and to a PPTX.

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Jul 12, 2018
    Ps. My short URLs are enabled so it works with those on. You are sharing a file and not folderers right? What share option are you using?
  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Jul 12, 2018
    I just tested an anyone link from OneDrive and Sharepoint and by fading &download=1 to both links it made the files download right away.

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