Disable Online Web Editing

The ability to hide the Web Edit button is available in FileCloud Server version 19.1 and later.


You can decide not to allow your users to edit documents in a browser. 

After an administrator configures online editing, FileCloud users can login to the User Portal, select any supported document and click a Web Edit button to edit the document from within the web browser. All the changes made by the user gets saved in FileCloud automatically.

If an administrator does not want to support this feature, the Web Edit button can now be removed from the User Portal for:

  • a single user - in the user's policy
  • a group of users - in the group's policy
  • all users - in the Global Default Policy

To hide the Web Edit button for a single user:

  1. Open a browser and log in to the Admin Portal.
  2. From the left navigation pane, under USERS/GROUPS, select Users.
  3. On the Manage Users screen, in the row of the user you want to modify, click the Manage Policies () button.
  4. On the Policy Settings dialog, select the User Policy tab.
  5. Next to the Enable Web Edit Feature label, select NO.
  6. Click Save.

To hide the Web Edit button for a group:

  1. Open a browser and log in to the Admin Portal.
  2. From the left navigation pane, under USERS/GROUPS, select Groups.
  3. On the Manage Groups screen, in the row of the group you want to modify, click the Manage Policies () button.
  4. On the Policy Settings dialog, select the User Policy tab.
  5. Next to the Enable Web Edit Feature label, select NO.
  6. Click Save.

To hide the Web Edit button for all users:

  1. Open a browser and log in to the Admin Portal.
  2. From the left navigation pane, under SETTINGS, select Settings.
  3. On the Manage Settings screen, in the row of the Global Default Policy, click the Edit () button.
  4. On the Policy Settings dialog, select the User Policy  tab.
  5. Next to the Enable Web Edit Feature label, select NO.
  6. Click Save.