WebView2 Downloads UI - Open file or Show in folder options are not working

[DotNet-Fan]

Description

1. Open any webpage in webview2 for eg: https://www.microsoft.com .

2. Right click on the page and then from the context menu , use the option 'save as ' to save the html content to disk.

3. From the downloads UI that is visible at the top right , select the file , then right click and try the option "Open file" or "Show in folder".

Nothing happens.

Also there is no way to show/hide the downloads UI from code.

Version
SDK: Microsoft.UI.Xaml - 2.8.4
Runtime: 114.0.1823.43
Framework: UWP
OS: Windows 11

AB#45394990

[champnic]

I believe this is different than #3452. Due to the file access limitations of UWP I believe we removed the default methods for opening the folder (there's usually a little folder icon in the UI list) but seems we missed the context-menu options. I've added this as a bug on our backlog to address. Thanks!

[DotNet-Fan]

Thanks @champnic for prioritizing this. On a side note , when you download , it goes to the location/Downloads/"AppName" and the app has access to the subfolder "AppName" . So ideally the app has access to open the file or open the folder location. That means from the download UI app has access to open it right?
In a case where user is asked to download to a different location different from the default location, then from the downloads UI , the options open file/folder should be hidden. Hope this makes sense.

[pubtom]

@champnic When will this issue be solved?
Thanks!

[champnic]

@pubtom We haven't begun the work on this item yet. I don't have a timeline to share at this point, sorry.

[DotNet-Fan]

@champnic Any update on this issue?

Thanks

[champnic]

No update here yet.

[champnic]

No updates here yet.

[pubtom]

@champnic Any update on this issue?