Force save as pdf

And, once I get that working, how do I enable the new document that was saved based off of the fillable form to not retain the 'Force Save As' language, and act normal when I go back and edit it? I basically want the. Any suggestions would be helpful I've already tried to use the app. Red Flag This Post Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate.

Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework. Close Box. Hopefully that makes sense. The majority of the users I deal with are not very computer savvy and I'm worried that they will mess up the form and then I'll spend a lot of time fixing things for them.

The above options should work but what I think really needs to be looked at is your environment. Your main complaint is probably the authentication prompt for Office Documents for extranet users.

The best way to get around that is to use Forms Based Authentication the incorporates a persistent cookie. This way a user outside of your domain can authenticate to SharePoint and get edit access to Office documents without a prompt. Since you are posting to the general forum and not a programming area I am going to guess you do not want a custom solution. Therefore, the way this is handled is by your browser settings.

SharePoint just streams the document with its MIME type in the header and your browser decides how to open it. There are ways to "trick" the browser through customization but it would require some pretty big changes. Thanks for your reply, i was kind of hoping for a gui solution as coding takes time which i am short of I suspect this may be one of those browser-dependent things, but is it possible to force a Save As dialog with the php headers when streaming a pdf for download?

They most likely have Ask where to save each file before downloading unchecked Advanced Settings. If this is the case, there's nothing you can do as this is their preference. That behavior is controlled by the browser settings, so I don't think theres a way to force the "Save as" dialog to be opened.

You could try not specifying a name for the file, but I do think that it will just inherit the scripts name instead. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

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