# The possibility to hide "Open with Google Docs" and open the docs in the browser with a chosen server
**URL:** https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873
**Category:** Feature Ideas
**Created:** [June 24, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873 "2022-06-24T08:23:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://community.baserow.io/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2022, 8:23am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/1 "2022-06-24T08:23:05Z")
Hello,
one of the two reasons we want to use baserow is that we can self-host our data (the other is that we want to use free software), for privacy and data protection, but if the documents are opened in Google Docs, it ruins this goal! š
Thatās why we need to have an option in the backend to disable this ability to open documents in Google Docs.
What would be even better is to have the possibility to indicate in the backend an online document server other than Google Docs, a Collabora Libreoffice Online server and/or an Onlyoffice server. As we self-host a Collabora server and a OnlyOffice Document server, we could open the document in the userās browser without losing data protection.
You could for example examine the code of the free software Nextcloud which has a Collabora connector and an Onlyoffice connector.
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### Author:  [@Peter](https://community.baserow.io/u/Peter)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2022, 8:56am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/2 "2022-06-24T08:56:31Z")
Great idea. Just a suggestion. Could you maybe edit your topic title? It is very big. The point you want to make is explained in the post. Maybe change it to āThe possibility to open documents in the browser with a chosen server.ā
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://community.baserow.io/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/3 "2022-06-24T09:23:11Z")
Done, but I left āhide āOpen with Google Docsāā in the title, because I imagine itās way much easier to hide āopen with google docsā than to implement a Collabora or Onlyoffice connector, and just hide āOpen with Google Docsā would already be an important step for us
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/4 "2022-06-30T18:24:08Z")
Hello Vincent, sorry for the delay in the response! You can have this feature done by running a very simple and small plugin. Our devs can write the code, do you have the technical capabilities to deploy it in your self-hosted version?
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://community.baserow.io/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/5 "2022-07-01T13:12:27Z")
Hello Olga, great news ! Yes (I hope) we have the capabilities to do that with some explanations !
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 11:27am UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/6 "2022-07-13T11:27:40Z")
Hey @Vincent! I have great news, we think the change ā hide āOpen with Google Docsā ā could benefit other users as well, so we decided to make it configurable in Baserow instead of creating a plugin. Here is the issue: [Introduce environment variable to disable Google docs file preview (#1074) Ā· Issues Ā· Bram Wiepjes / baserow Ā· GitLab](https://gitlab.com/bramw/baserow/-/issues/1074), and we expect to release it in Baserow 1.11.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://community.baserow.io/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/7 "2022-07-14T21:33:25Z")
Hello @olgatrykush , as you said, itās a great news ! Thanks a lot to the team !
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### Author:  [@olgatrykush](https://community.baserow.io/u/olgatrykush)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.baserow.io/t/the-possibility-to-hide-open-with-google-docs-and-open-the-docs-in-the-browser-with-a-chosen-server/873/8 "2022-07-27T16:07:47Z")
And this feature was also implemented š