How to block download of document files in Onlyoffice

[princesarvaiya]

Hi Experts,

I am using the docker based deployment for Onlyoffice server and document.
But, in my environment I want user to restrict download of word/ppt/excel

There are 2 ways user can download.
From outside, you have option to download and download as.
From inside, I open a document there is an option to download it from the file menu.

I want to block this. Looking at few of the community discussion topic, I found few post we cannot disable it.

But do we have some documentation or some hack like placing NGINX in front of it to block the download. If yes, I need a particular location path for me at add 403 forbidden.

Can someone please suggest any document or workaround on this, i will highly appreciate it.

[Constantine]

Hello @princesarvaiya

@princesarvaiya

From outside, you have option to download and download as.

As an independent integrator this behavior should be implemented on your application side.

@princesarvaiya

From inside, I open a document there is an option to download it from the file menu.

In the editors interface you can disable downloading via download permission set to false in editors initialization config:
https://api.onlyoffice.com/editors/config/document/permissions#download

You can open integrated test example via address of Document Server, then select Hamish Mitchell as a user (this user is not allowed to download files) and open any file for editing to check it out:

[princesarvaiya]

Thanks Constantine for reply,

For point number 2,

Can you share me the location of this config file within the docker container, and i can set this flag to false.

[Constantine]

Hello @princesarvaiya

Please note that the initialization configuration file is provided by you as the independent integrator when running the editor to edit a file and is not located in your Document Server Docker container.