Have you ever looked at a top-level Box folder and felt overwhelmed by the prospect of having to dig through and drill down to every sub-folder just to know what the contents are?

Do you get discouraged at the thought of looking for a single file that could possibly exist way down the rabbit hole of Box folders and sub-folders?

Would you rather have the ability to glance at a snapshot of an entire Box folder and all the sub-folders and files that exist within it?

A simple yet effective solution is a "tree directory" view. This is a feature that doesn't exist yet, but with your vote, you could contribute towards making this feature come alive.

Here is a mockup of what a folder snapshot in tree directory format could look like:
https://ibm.box.com/s/qbvte48kglmnoe8bk53cwf79ktyr7yqs

【Summary】
Please add "Require email address confirmation by one-time password" to the Open Link settings.
This will allow the access statistics to show the email addresses of users who have accessed from the open link, so that you can determine if the access is suspicious or not.

【Problem to be solved】
The current open link is not secure enough.
This is because it is not possible to determine who accessed the file.
With the current use, if a user who is not logged in to Box accesses from an open link, the access history only shows the IP address and expected region.
The IP address can only be used to guess the network used, and the expected region is wrong in some cases.
It is impossible for the IT management department to monitor whether the open link is a pathway for information leakage.

【Idea Details】
Allow users to select "Require email address verification with one-time password" when issuing an Open Link.
If this setting is enabled, the following actions will be taken
<If the user accessing is logged in to Box>
Displayed as before, without change.
<If the user accessing is not logged in to Box>
(1) The user will be asked to enter email address.
The one-time password will be sent to the address he/she entered.
(3) The user will be asked to enter one-time password.
(4) When the user enter the correct one-time password, he/she will be able to open the open link.
(5)The email address entered will be displayed in the file access history.

【Additional idea】
If you realize this request, it will also be possible to restrict open links with a domain whitelist. I have raised the request in the following ticket.
Secure open link② - Domail whire list for open link

FEATURE IDEA:
Provide ability to flag/classify files and folders in a way that allows Box to move them to a less-expensive storage offering on the back-end. This can be referred to as an "inactive" or "archive" flag.

BENEFITS & BACKGROUND

During the Box Higher Education Community Monthly Open Discussion on January 11th, an idea to submit to Box Pulse was formed, and seemed to have support from all in attendance (25-30 institutions).

Box acknowledges that there is a growing concern around constantly increasing storage, and the costs associated with it. The majority of files stored in Box are perceived (or actively reported) as being "inactive" and yet those files are costing Box and their customers the same amount. As a result, organizations are searching for alternative cost-effective solutions to move their data into. Implementing a separate solution for a subset of Box data requires significant technical, administrative, procedural, and support overhead.

Given a user or admin-driven active/inactive flag, Box could engineer their platform to use cheaper back-end storage for inactive data, and more permanent storage for active data, ultimately providing a more cost-effective service.

Administrators could be given the ability to set the parameters for what makes something an "inactive" file, and then allow end-users to tag their own content.

Allowing a view and controls around "active" vs "inactive" content, means Box could then provide X amount of "active" storage, and Y amount of "inactive" storage quota either included in the price, or for an additional fee (at better a less-expensive per TB rate). Organizations can then choose to deploy the associated quota controls and processes based on their own budget and needs for active and inactive storage.

Market opportunity -- other cloud  providers do not provide user-initiated controls for this kind of approach to data storage and management. If the providers are implementing anything like this, it is not transparent to the user. Box may have an opportunity to retain users and their data, by providing a more cost-effective glacier/cold-line/archive/inactive data storage offering, side-by-side with the rest of the Box platform.

The Box and Salesforce integration for Salesforce mobile does not support custom objects at all so we had to create a deep link workaround that redirects to the associated folder within the box mobile experience (this also requires some salesforce coding to populate a field with the corresponding folderID). This is not a seamless experience....it is a clunky redirect.

Also, you are not able to create the corresponding box folder for the first time from the mobile experience....you have to create the box folder from the desktop from within the box integration within salesforce first, before you are able to access it from mobile. This is mainly due to the the mobile box and salesforce integration not supporting custom objects out of the box.

The custom object set up for the web app is also not seamless and requires from VF and tricky setup.

I found a problem with the current mail upload function, so I would like Box to improve it.

[Request (1): Adding Management Console and Folder Settings]
Users with Editor permission can change the settings of the folder's mail upload function.
However, I would like to add the ability to restrict this permission to owners and co-owners to the administrative console and the settings for each folder.

[Request (2) Timing for saving the settings of the mail upload function]
If you click "Allow uploads to this folder via email" about the mail upload function of the folder, the URL for the mail upload will be issued immediately and the setting will be saved, but if you make an operation by mistake, you cannot return to the original URL, so I would like you to improve it as follows.

Working with the Mail Upload Feature in Current Folder Settings
① Click "Allow uploads to this folder via email" in the folder setting.
② A URL is issued for mail upload.
③ It is applied immediately without pressing "Save Changes" in the upper right of the screen.

Working with the Mail Upload Feature in Improved Folder Settings
① Click "Allow uploads to this folder via email" in the folder setting.
② A URL is issued for mail upload.
③ This setting is not applied immediately and is saved when you click "Save Changes" in the upper right corner of the screen. A user who performs an operation by mistake can prevent the setting from being changed by not saving the setting change of the folder.

[Request (3) Checking the change history of the mail upload function]
I would like you to provide me with a way to check the log (who made what changes and when) when users change their mail upload settings for a specific folder. I can't find out who changed my mail upload settings at this time.

[Request (4) Behavior when sending mail to a non-existent mail upload URL]
If the user accidentally changes the URL for the mail upload, the previous URL is invalidated. If you send the mail upload function using the previous URL, the following mail will be sent from Box.

Subject:
Unable to process mail request

Articles:
Your attempt to email file (s) into 'a folder' was not successful.

From this email, the user knows that the upload failed but does not know to which folder the upload failed. By including the information about the folder in this mail, the user can know which folder the mail upload failed, so please add that information.

[Background to the Request for Improvement]
・Users upload faxes that arrive at the multifunction device as e-mail attachments to the fax folder of Box using the mail upload function.
・Since each user has to move or delete the uploaded files, the user who collaborated with Box's fax folder has been granted the rights of an editor.
・Each user is optionally configured to receive an email notification when a file is uploaded to the Box fax folder.

By performing the above setting, the paper ejection of the fax is eliminated, and the PDF is directly ejected into the Box and the reception notification is received. Fax reception can be confirmed even on different floors and when teleworking, so printing costs are not incurred, loss is prevented, and there is no need to scan later.

However, a user with Editor rights accidentally clicked "Allow uploads to this folder via email" in the folder settings and reissued the URL for the mail upload.

As a result, files uploaded to the previous URL were lost. In addition, since it was not possible to check which folder and when the setting was changed in the report, etc., it took a lot of effort to identify the folder. This is how the request for improvement came about. We are currently taking measures by increasing backup methods.

Please consider it in order to make it simple and safe.

Please fix this annoying issue. Currently when I upload a document or rename something, a green update box pops up at the top of my screen. When that confirmation happens, I'm not able to click on anything to the direct left or right of it (i.e. my search bar, more options sometimes, etc.) until it goes away or I specifically click the 'x'. It's like everything is "behind" the update box, and it gets a bit annoying when I'm renaming or uploading several things.

Ideally I'd like to be able to use the buttons/features to the left and right of the update box while it's still on the screen so I don't have to either wait or click 'x'.