Link word document in email body

There is old (deprecated) functionality that can generate a URL link that would lead to the document (in a downloading context) within Appian, even from an external location like an email, but even that still requires an Appian login to authenticate into.

So nothing really satisfies the "non appian users" requirement other than email attachments, which work but can be kinda clumsy (and is very sensitive to over-large items), or using portals which, as mentioned, opens up some pretty gaping security concerns (though I guess you could include a unique PIN in the email and make the user type in their PIN at the portal page before exposing the document download, or some other approach that prevents external users from stumbling onto something they shouldn't see).

There is old (deprecated) functionality that can generate a URL link that would lead to the document (in a downloading context) within Appian, even from an external location like an email, but even that still requires an Appian login to authenticate into.

So nothing really satisfies the "non appian users" requirement other than email attachments, which work but can be kinda clumsy (and is very sensitive to over-large items), or using portals which, as mentioned, opens up some pretty gaping security concerns (though I guess you could include a unique PIN in the email and make the user type in their PIN at the portal page before exposing the document download, or some other approach that prevents external users from stumbling onto something they shouldn't see).