Question

Disable the download feature in document viewer

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
March 4, 2024
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I have a use case to not to allow the user to download the pdf document but he should be able to view it.
Do we have any possible ways to achieve this with or without the PDF Viewer in Appian?

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muhammads3635

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saifalik8679Author

Can you elaborate on how to disable the download as I would embed the document easily but I wont be able to get any property to disable the download button.
Need your inputs [mention:126a676c85024855948336691b0a7b92:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]

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muhammads3635

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konduruc733182

Hello [mention:7703864759a3439fbcd9581df22b2bde:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]

Please refer the below documentation for better understanding.

Document Viewer Component

If your file is stored within Appian it would display. If your file is out of the system it would download or throw an error sometimes.

saifalik8679Author

[mention:2df2892a4df7486f9775b4d2f0e405fd:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] I have gone through the documentation, but there is no property to disable the user to download the document

konduruc733182

AFAIK , if the document is non-compatible to display in the viewer then You will not have control over that.

Also you can do a validation check before passing it into the viewer component. If it is of some file type that is not supported, you can not show the viewer component.

harshitb6843

I don't think you can do that. You can look for plugins on the App market but nothing more.

saifalik8679Author

Plugins are there, but there is watermark coming along with this.
That doesn't solves the purpose.

harshitb6843

There should be a way to pay and get rid of the mark if restricting a user from downloading is really important. Additionally, if it is a single-page PDF, you can display it in an image field. It won't be crystal clear, but will serve the purpose.

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