Sharepoint Page Viewer problems

Question

hi,

My organization uses Office 365 and I was trying to work with SharePoint.  I have created a site page and added the Page View component.  I copied the link from a SharePoint document library to a PDF and when I test it in the Page Viewer setup it works fine, however, when I save it and try the link in the page I get a pge not found error.  any suggestions?

Thanks

Jason

Answer 1

Hi Bigtalljv_2,

I can understand that it would be a lot more friendly to end user that viewing a PDF in a webpage instead of downloading first, but currently, SharePoint does not have a good solution to this needs. Sorry about that.

Given this situation, we hope you could give feedback to SharePoint in SharePoint UserVoice. If more and more user vote for the idea, it's more likely to get the attention of the product team.

Appreciate your understanding.

Regards,

Alex

Answer 2

Yes, there are multiple options to view the PDFs on the mobile devices directly but some of them are quite large so I was trying to find a way to keep from having to download them.  it's for an operations and maintenance manual situation, ideally I'd love for them to be html web pages but that a whole giant project.

Answer 3

Hi Bigtalljv_2,

The File Viewer looks like this in mobile devices. It's doesn't seem to be a recommended way to view PDF.

If you have a different situation, could you share some screenshots with us?

If your purpose is to view PDFs, I think OneDrive for mobile device can do that too. Users can access SharePoint libraries in OneDrive mobile client and open PDF files. You could upload the PDF to a SharePoint library.

Regards,

Alex

Answer 4

yes, what I am doing looks the same as you.  I copied the link by going to the sharepoint document library and selecting the file and then the three little dots and "copy link".  

So one issue that might derail this is that the file viewer doesn't work on mobile devices, maybe as a straight browser view but kind of defeats the purpose.  I was looking for an easy way to view PDFs on mobile devices out in the field.

Answer 5

Hi Jason,

Sorry for the trouble it has caused.

If you are using a moder page(SharePoint classic and modern experiences), I just tested in my test tenant. I added a File viewer according to this article: Use the File viewer web part and it works fine. So could you share screenshot with us?

If you are using the classic page, here are some questions we want to confirm with you first:

1. How did you copied the link? Select the PDF > click Copy link on the top bar?
2. What is the web part did you add? This one?

Regards,

Alex