Allow visitors to see documents but not download them

Use case

Sometimes you want to allow visitors to see the documents but not download them. For example when you are selling digital content and want to encourage your unregistered visitors to sign up by showing the document description.

Solution

In this scenario, you need to change the Download advanced permission.

To do so, follow these steps:

1. Go to Administrator » Documents » Settings.

2. Click on the Global permissions tab.

3. Replace the Public group from the global Download permissions selector with another group.
   In the example above, we have replaced Public with Subscriber while leaving view to Public. This will allow everyone to see the documents but only granting downloads to users belonging to the Subscriber group.

4. Click Save, the settings screen will close automatically once your new settings have been saved.