SharePoint Online - Pass search string

[Patrick28169474tncu]

Hi everyone,

we have stored several PDF files in a SharePoint Online document library that are searchable. I can easily search for these documents using the SharePoint Online search (also by content). However, when I open a PDF file from the search results, the search is not passed on. This means I have to perform the search again.

There is also the limitation that the standard PDF viewer in Edge is not particularly suitable for this. Whenever my search contains spaces or the PDF document is very long, the search does not work properly. One idea was to use Adobe Document Cloud as a PDF viewer. However, I cannot define in SharePoint that search results should always be opened with Adobe Document Cloud. This only applies to documents in a document library. Unfortunately, the transfer of the search string does not work, as far as I have researched.

So, my question is: Is there a way to use Adobe Document Cloud for search results and pass on the search string? I think this problem must have several people. I would be very grateful for any solution suggestions.

Thank you in advance,

Patrick

[S. S]

Hi @Patrick28169474tncu,

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for your experience with Acrobat Online Services.

Just to clarify, are you using the Adobe Cloud Storage online to view the files or Acrobat Reader? If the desktop version, you might want to link your SharePoint profile to Acrobat and it would fetch all the files available to search on your SharePoint.

If this is not what's happening with Acrobat, please share a screen recording of the workflow so we could get a better understanding of the workflow to provide better assistance.

You might want to know more about linking SharePoint with Acrobat from here: Access your SharePoint files in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader

Hope this helps.

-Souvik.