Microsoft Teams is a popular collaboration app for businesses; more than 145 million monthly active users and 500,000 organizations rely on Teams. Previously, however, enabling interaction on PDFs in Teams was not easy or required a separate software service integration.

Well, in this guide, we show an easy way to boost productivity and keep users engaged, by enabling a full-fledged document experience right in their Microsoft Teams, no additional SaaS licenses required. We’ll show you how to integrate PDFTron’s WebViewer sample directly with MS Teams as a Teams App in a few steps.

WebViewer allows you to open PDFs, annotate, fill, sign, edit, and so much more in Teams. Check out the full

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How Do Apps Work in Teams?

A JSON manifest file is generated when apps are made for Microsoft Teams. The manifest file contains the information the user needs to use the Teams app, such as the web pages to navigate to for the Teams Tabs. Tabs in Teams are an <iframe>, so adding both new and existing web apps is possible.

Prerequisites

The following needs to be installed for this guide:

• VS Code -

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• VS Code Teams Toolkit Extension -

  MSFT Setup Guide
• Microsoft 365 Account with a valid subscription or join Microsoft 365 Developer Program.

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PDFTron Sample

First, we need to set up WebViewer. For this example, we can explore PDFTron's

JavaScript PDF Viewer Library Integrations

• React
• Angular
• Vue.js
• Svelte
• Blazor
• Next.js
• Nuxt.js

Use ngrok to Make Local Running Instances Externally Accessible

The WebViewer sample needs to be publicly available using HTTPS endpoints for Microsoft Teams. This can be done quickly with the tool

→ Microsoft instructions to

To install ngrok, follow the steps below found on

1. Install ngrok via Chocolatey
   
2. Add auth token (You generate your token and input it here)

ngrok authtoken <token>

1. Start a tunnel (Note: Change port “4200” as needed)

ngrok http 4200 --host-header=localhost:4200

Start a New Project for Microsoft Teams and Integrate

Next, we start a new project for Microsoft Teams and connect our tunnel.

1. In VS Code, select the extension Teams Toolkit
2. Create a new Teams app
3. Select Edit manifest file underneath Development header or go to the manifest.local.template.json
4. Edit all the URLs to match the new externally accessible URL from ngrok
5. F5 to build and run
6. Add the app

You should have something like this at the end!

Sideloading Issues

Note: If there is an issue with Sideloading not being enabled, you must sign in to the

1. At the admin center, select Teams
2. Expand Teams apps
3. Underneath go to Setup policies
4. Enable Upload custom apps

Wrap Up

And that's it! We hope this guide makes integrating a complete PDF and document experience with Microsoft Teams even easier.

If you’re interested in trying other features with PDFTron WebViewer, check out our

As always, if you have any questions, or run into any issues, don’t hesitate to reach out