General Overview
The Document Viewer is a built-in Page Component with special functionality. Supported files can be opened in a web document viewer, allowing almost any document type to be viewed without the need for supporting software.
Built using HTML, the Document Viewer is capable of displaying 77 different file formats, including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and email files.
Supported files in the Document Viewer will be indexed for full-text search queries, allowing users to search on the contents of a file using the search bar.
Key Features of the Document Viewer
- Support for both desktop and mobile browsers
- Fast document loading
- High resolution rendering, preserving text and graphics exactly as they are in the original (no rasterization)
- Fully integrated into the Ondexx search engine, supporting both full-text search as well as in-document search.
- Navigate with native document bookmarks/outlines.
- Change page layout modes (e.g. single page or facing pages), rotate pages and view on full screen.
- Options to print, download original, and download as PDF
- Secure document viewing, copy protection (DRM)
- Viewed documents are encrypted so they are copy-protected out of the box
- Ability to disable downloading the original document, replicating it via printing, or selecting and copying text.
Using the Document Viewer
The Document Viewer component shows information about the embedded file, with a View Document button to launch the viewer itself. Buttons to download the file and/or locate it in the File Manager may appear as well, depending on the user’s rights and the Viewer’s configuration.
The Document Viewer is straightforward to use, and functions similarly to most reader applications. The toolbar along the top contains buttons to navigate and search the document, and adjust your viewing options.
Depending on the DRM setting of the component, options may be available to print and download the document. Additionally, the ability to select text within the embedded document is controlled by DRM settings.
Adding the Document Viewer to Pages
The Document Viewer is a built-in Page Component that can be added to any page. The addition of the Document Viewer is subject to the Page Lifecycle.
- Open the Page Editor of the page to which you want to add a Document Viewer.
- Navigate to the Components tab.
- Click the Add Document Viewer button.
- Click the Content dropdown, and select the DOCUMENT VIEWER component.
- Click the UPLOAD or SELECT FILE button to open the File Manager.
- Select a file from the File Manager, or upload a file from your computer with the UPLOAD button. Visit this article for a list of file formats supported by the Document Viewer.
- Under Digital Rights Management, select what a user should be permitted to do when viewing the document.
- The Document Viewer has been configured and added to the draft of the page.