Enforcing Check In/Check Out via Library Settings > Versioning Settings.They liked the Office Online aspect of this solution due to its speed and forcing it to open locally might negate some of that.
Set the documents to “Open in the client application” via the Library Settings à Advanced Settings option.Normally this makes sense but, in this instance, we needed to find a way around that default behavior.ĭuring our research we found a few potential options but none of them quite fit the need or created more administrative overhead that we weren’t willing to push on to the user base: By default, Modern SharePoint Office Online opens the document based on the user’s permissions so if I have Contribute or Edit rights the document opens in edit mode and if I have read or view rights the document opens in read-only mode. The PowerApp was for a heavy industrial fabrication shop and the target users were often wearing welding equipment and various other safety gear so asking them to be more delicate with the tooling wasn’t really a reasonable request.Īs this was the first time we have encountered this type of request we assumed it would be straightforward, not so much. The employees needed the ability to edit the documents and be able to open them in Office Online by default, but during testing we noticed that employees were unintentionally modifying files in Office Online. We recently were engaged on a project where we were utilizing PowerApps to present documents to employees via a kiosk application.