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PDF Viewer Control - Option Show Controls not working anymore

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In the past, the Controls (Search field, page fwd, bwd, page 1/x and zoom out/in) of the PDF Viewer Control were visible.

Now they are gone. I can enable/disable them in the dev studio, but they don't show up in the published version.
When the published app starts, the control bar is visible for a split second, but that's it.
I've tried forcing visibility with a variable set to true when the app starts, but nothing changes.

Has anyone experienced this and knows how to fix it?

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marimon 14 on at

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PDF Viewer Control - Option Show Controls not working anymore

You can either use a timer, as others suggested, or use the OnStateChange property in the PDFVIEWER control:

UpdateContext({varcontrols:false});

UpdateContext({varcontrols:true})

And set varcontrols as ShowControls property

Neither of them are perfect solutions. If your pdf takes longer to load, the timer must repeat itself in a loop or be long enough to cover any scenario, which becomes uncomfortable to me. The StateChange solution also has it's flaws, if you open twice the same file, it doesn't get seen as a state change and you need to move to the second page of the file to trigger the control.

I hope Microsoft fixes it in upcoming updates.

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Cameron Greene 7 on at

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PDF Viewer Control - Option Show Controls not working anymore

I had to work around this by adding this to my gallery. I really hate that this works as other simple methods didn't seem to work.

I plan to remove this as soon as MS fixer their stuff...

Gallery

On Select:

Set(VarShowControls, false);

UpdateContext({ startTimer: !startTimer })

Then on my timer

OnTimerEnd:

Set(VarShowControls, true);

UpdateContext({ startTimer: false })

Start:

startTimer

Reset:

True

Visablity:

False

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Ram Prakash 5,408 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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PDF Viewer Control - Option Show Controls not working anymore

Hi,

Not sure, may be is there any Microsoft updated anything?

Please mark as answer if my suggestion helps.
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Cameron Greene 7 on at

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PDF Viewer Control - Option Show Controls not working anymore

I'm getting the same issue, changed nothing and one day it stopped working! Typical Microsoft!

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