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new app navigation: sharepoint.com refused to connect.
Hi everyone I wanted to test the new navigation for APPs and was excited to embed supporting PDF documents that are stored on our companies SharePoint site (available to all internal users, no re...
I had the same issue with trying to display a PowerPoint slide deck stored on our Sharepoint. Might be different with non Office app but essentially its taking a part from an embed link. I successfully got my ppt deck to show in the app content area by doing the following:
1) from PowerPoint (web app, go to file > Share > Embed
2) copy only the url part of the embed link (the part within the quotes after src=)
3) paste this part of the embed link in the link for your nav app, set to display in content area
4) update app
disclaimer: I haven't tried doing this for a document where the nav app user has different read permissions than the SharePoint file/folder
good luck! - M