[ARCHIVED] Inline preview for OneDrive documents

[Undeceiver]

When using the functionality to include a document from Office365 (OneDrive) in a page, it does not give me an option to provide an inline preview of said document.

This release document from 2016 seems to indicate that this should be possible, though: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Releases-Board/Canvas-Release-Microsoft-Office-365-LTI-201...

In particular, I quote: "The Office 365 LTI displays the OneDrive icon in the Rich Content Editor. The icon displays everything in a user’s OneDrive account and allows users to display documents as inline links. "

But when I do it, the link options do not display an inline preview option for OneDrive document. If I instead upload the document manually then it does.

PS: I posted this as a question because I didn't find another way to post it but also because I think it might be something I'm not seeing. If I should repost it as a feature request, I'd like to know how to do that.

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Good evening, @Undeceiver ...

Unfortunately, I do not believe there is an in-line preview available for O365 documents that are linked within your course using the Office 365 LTI external app.  I looked though this Guide, How do I create a hyperlink from Microsoft Office ... - Canvas Community, and it only indicates that it places a link within your content page.  There isn't any indicator that in-line previewing is an option.  The link that you provided in your question was from a Canvas Release back in December 2016, so things may have changed since then.  (To be honest, I don't recall that in-line previews were ever available for the O365 integration.  I could be wrong, though.)  The Guide that I linked to would have the most up-to-date information.

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