How to open the document on click in Sharepoint onprem in browser?

Question

The URLs of SharePoint documents don't get open on click for on-prem versions 2019, 2016. They get downloaded but don't open directly on browser.
Is there a way with which we can modify the URL and use it in application so that it gets open on the browser?

E.g. If I use this "{Site Url}/Shared%20Documents/January22.pdf " as a source URL to go to the document, it is not opening in browser directly nor downloading it but, if I copy paste the URL in another tab then it gets downloaded.

Answer 1

Hi @Yichen Name ,
You need to install Office Online Server(OOS, the next version of Office Web Apps Server) for SharePoint 2016 to open docemnrt files in the browser. I tried other methods of opening sharepoint documents in the browser on the web and they all failed.
If you need to, please check the following link to learn how to install and configure Office Online Server.
Configure Office Online Server for SharePoint Server 2016
How to Install Office Online Server for SharePoint 2016
I also found two threads with the same problem as yours, you can refer to:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/266982/sharepoint-on-premise-server-2016-open-documents-in-online-mode
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/238574/sharepoint-2016-on-premise-force-ms-office-documents-to-open-in-browser

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