Opening documents in app instead of browser

When opening documents in WorkPoint 365, the default behavior is to open the document in the browser version of the relevant application. This article shows how to change the default behavior to open documents in their respective desktop applications instead of in the browser. Thus, this article assumes your lists open documents using the "default" setting.

There are no requirements associated with changing this behavior.

In order to change the default behavior of opening documents, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Home" button of the solution.
2. Click "My WorkPoint solution" to access the front page of the solution.

3. Click the "Settings" button in the top right corner of the page.
4. Click the "Site information" menu item.

5. In the newly opened side panel, click "View all site settings".

6. In the Site Settings page, under "Site Collection Administration", click "Site collection features".

7. For the feature called "Open Documents in Client Applications by Default", click "Activate".

After activating this feature, a Site Collection Synchronization needs to be performed in order to replicate the feature onto all site collections.

This can be done by following these steps (shown in Modern UI):

8. Click the "Home" button of the solution.
9. Click the cog icon to access the WorkPoint Administration.

10. In the WorkPoint Administration, in the left side menu, click "Site Collection Synchronization".

11. In order to activate the feature on the Master site the "Feature" needs to be checked.
12. Here you can choose to activate on a specific site collection or choose all as shown.
13. Click "Submit Job" to start the synchronization.
14. The "Clear Job History" deletes all the previous run jobs if you do not need to look at them anymore.

After this job runs you need to go to the Business module you want to activate this feature on and choose Master site synchronization.

16.  Choose the "Replicate site collection features" and deselect everything else.

17.  After choosing the scope press the Synchronize to enable the feature on all sites on the module.

Your solution should new be set up to open documents in their respective desktop applications instead of the browser versions.