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Hello
We would like to offer our employees around 30 PDF files on their tablets in kiosk mode. I would like to have a button that then shows the contents of the folder and I can select a PDF that is then opened. I don't want the employee to have to choose anything. It should all just open the PDF in the standard program. He shouldn't be able to leave the folder either. What is the best solution here?
As you have the requirements that the device end-user do not leave the folder holding the pdf files after opening any, using any off-the-shelf file manager app is likely not possible. I believe the two simplest solutions are:
1. Customize the html/CSS template of your kiosk to include folder/tab or similar visual-objects (e.g. with some free & established html5/CSS/javascript framework available online) to include your 30 or so pdf files.
2. Customize some open-source file manager app to restrict access only to your hardcoded pdf file folder, and include such customized app as one MobiControl kiosk item.
Unfortunately, both approach requires some programming expertise/skills.
Long time ago that i worked with GPO's in the past but i think i remember it should be possible to lock chrome (in this case via managed app config) to block anything but not one specific folder like:
Blacklist *
Allowlist file:///sdcard/Android/data/com.android.chrome/files/Download/
start site file:///sdcard/Android/data/com.android.chrome/files/Download/
And you have to place the files there for sure and can use any other folder as well (tested also for /sdcard/Download/).
It's definitely not the best solution and I'm currently not able to test this deeply but a quick and dirty one was succesfull.
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