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Viewing Electronic Documents

Once you have located an electronic document (e.g., Word, Excel, or PDF) in your repository, open it.

The electronic document will open in one of the following ways:

Note: If you choose to open an electronic document with another application on your device, you are effectively exporting the document. If your organization uses Advanced Audit Trail, you may be prompted to choose a reason for exporting.

If you cannot, or choose not to open an electronic document from the Laserfiche app, you can still edit its field information, start and view business processes, email a link to it, share it, and move it or copy it. Use the app bar at the bottom of the screen to choose one of these options.

To open an electronic document in another application

Note: You cannot open electronic documents in another application if Prevent users from exporting to other apps and saving copies of offline documents on mobile devices is selected under Security on the Laserfiche Mobile Server Configuration page.

  1. Open the document in the Laserfiche app.
  2. In the app bar at the bottom of the screen, press the ellipsis, then Open In .

    3. Open In button

  3. If your device does not have a default application that opens the electronic document, select the application you want to open the electronic document with.

    4. Open File

To interact with electronic files in the Laserfiche app

Some electronic files, such as PDFs and .rtf files will open directly in the Document Viewer.

To zoom in

To zoom out

More options

Use the app bar to access a variety of options for interacting with the document. Press the ellipsis Ellipsis button to display the button labels and more options.

Supported Electronic File Types

The following electronic file types are supported in the Laserfiche app:

Text

Image

Video

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