View File | Communifire Documentation

Don't just store files, make them an interactive tool for your organization through collaboration, comments, and ratings. Communifire makes old-fashioned document management modern. You can easily upload and share documents with others using drag-and-drop from your desktop, or use the built-in content browsers. And you always have full control, with the ability to view the upload history of each file and roll-back to previous versions if you need. Set fine-grained permissions on individual folders and choose who can view, upload, edit, and delete them, so things are always organized for you. Supported file types include PDFs, the entire Microsoft suite, OpenOffice files, and video, audio, and text files.

File Info & Options

The top of the file viewer provides the following information about the file:

• Directory path
• File size
• Version number
• Who uploaded the file
• Upload date
• Who updated the file last
• Last update date
• Number of comments
• Number of views
• Rating
• File description

A button to view the file options menu is also at the top. This menu includes buttons to Download Files , Update File , Edit File Properties , view File Version History , open the file in full screen, Print , Share , Bookmark , Report Abuse , View Report , and Delete File .

Checked Out

Below the file info and options section is an indicator that appears if the file is checked out for updating. The indicator shows which user has checked out the file.

File Preview

File preview supports PDF files, Word files, PowerPoint files, Excel files, and much more. Use the Full Screen View in File Options to preview the file in full screen.

File Preview for Office Files

To display Office files in a browser, the default file viewer converts Office files to PDF. The PDF conversion process may result in unexpected formatting changes. You can use the Office web viewer to display Office files instead. Go to Control Panel > System > System Properties and set FileWopiViewerEnabledForOfficeFiles to true.

Note: The Office web viewer has a 5 MB file size limit for Excel files. Excel files over the file size limit will not use the Office web viewer and will use the regular file viewer.

Comments

Comments appear below the file preview.

How to Hide the Print Button in the File Preview

You can hide the print button in the file preview to prevent users from printing files.

1. Add the following code in Control Panel > System > CSS Overrides, at the bottom.

   /*Hide print option for files*/
   .et-files .print {
       display: none;
   }

2. Add the following code in Control Panel > System > General Settings > Header and Footer Scripts > Enter footer scripts, at the bottom.

<script>
//Hide print button in file preview
var $printContentIframe = $('#print_content').find('iframe');
if ($printContentIframe.length > 0) {
    var contentWindow = $printContentIframe[0].contentWindow;
    if (contentWindow) {
        var $printInIframe = $(contentWindow.document).find('#print');
        if ($printInIframe.length > 0) {
            $printInIframe.hide();
        }
    }
}
</script>

If you're on-premise, you can edit the viewer.css file directly in \Assets\scripts\pdf-js\web instead of using footer scripts. The viewer.css file controls the display of the file preview.