Senior sharepoint consultant at online business systems obs global, i have broad knowledge of administrating, configuring and features development in both sharepoint 2007 and 2010. When you install sharepoint farm in your environment the only connection between your organizations license type and license key used during installation of the farm is activation of either standard or enterprise features. When we open a pdf file from a sharepoint 2010 library or list, we are prompted to open the file as readonly assuming that we have pdf reader. Recently a client asked me how to correct sharepoint 2010 by allowing pdf files to open in a web browser instead of prompting to save the file. This applies not only to pdf files but all other file types as well. In this article, you will learn how to enable pdf files in sharepoint to open up in the browser. Opening pdf files in a browser from a sharepoint 2010 library. Posts about sharepoint 2010 written by mobeen qazi. Back up of entire web application was taken and restored in another server. Now in general settings dialogue box, set the browser file handling to permissive. The answer to both questions were yes, and the changes are pretty straightforward.
To make sharepoint 2010 to open pdf documents in browser. Sharepoint 2010, there is a setting called browser file handling control this behavior. Here is how you can tell sharepoint 2010 site to open the pdf files in the browser instead of prompting the user to save or open the pdf. Pdf mime type posted on september 14, 2011 september 14, 2011 by steven debels if you experience that you cant open pdf documents in your browser but sharepoint automatically tries to save te file to your local disc, run the following script in. Opening pdf files in a browser from sharepoint 2010 january 26, 2014 march 3, 2015 sunil padmanabhan leave a comment if you are facing an issue wherein your sharepoint users are having to download pdf files onto their local machines to view the files. Also, they were wondering if the default blank icon could be changed to a pdf icon to make it easier on users. Go to central administration application management select the web application and click on general settings. This will be a great option to the most of end users. Powershell command to allow inline pdf viewing in sharepoint 2010 by jbmurphy on january 10, 20 in powershell, sharepoint my. This setting is in central administration permissive browser file handling, which allows users to open files in their native applications. Pdf file not opening in browser for sharepoint 2010. Unlike sharepoint 2007, when you click on a pdf file in a document library it is only possible to save it to disk or open it in acrobat reader.
This needs simple powershell scripting run on the server. This is a sharepoint web application level setting and this property determines how file are treated in browser. Sharepoint, being a content management system, has some inbuilt security features that prevent some of the files from opening in the browser. Enable pdf files in sharepoint to open up in the browser. The reason for this behavior is the browser file handling setting in sharepoint 2010.
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