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  1. Standardize or lock down naming conventions

    The ability to set restrictions on file naming conventions would greatly help admins query their data.

    5 votes

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  2. Disable Single File Collaboration on Enterprise setting

    Just like Box Notes, Single File Collaboration should On or Off in Enterprise settings.

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  3. Single File Collaboration - Preview Permission

    The current implementation of Single File Collaboration is lacking the Preview permission.

    As organizations transition to the single file model, the functionality should align to the folder permission model as closely as possible to maintain ease of use and consistency within the application.

    The current behavior is to set the permission to Editor and require the user to navigate to multiple windows to downgrade rights to Viewer. The Viewer role still allows content to be downloaded to a local machine.

    We request Preview rights so that functionality like Watermarking can still be leveraged and to minimize data spillage.

    5 votes

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  4. Rsync-like upload of file differences

    Sync differentials, not the entire file. This is similar to Rsync functionality.

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  5. Extend box' capabilities with client protocols.

    In banking a lot of external content is accessed: reports from Bloomberg, other financial information, etc. Most of these pieces of information reside on FTP / SFTP / FTPS / Webdav systems.

    It would be nice if box could be extended in such a way that users have the possibility to access this content from within box. The idea is to have a new folder type (external content), which can then be configured with a connection string, user name and password. Users could then just browse those external sources from within box.

    Ideally a copy and paste should also be…

    1 vote

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  6. remove image files from people's HTML email signature

    The ability to have small image files removed from people's HTML email signature. It would be nice to have a way to filter these out or add a workflow that deletes these.

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  8. Route files to a specific user via the embed widget

    We would like to be able to pick what user content goes to with one widget.

    2 votes

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    not planned  ·  amin responded

    I think this would be better addressed with platform elements. This way, you can build out the exact functionality you seek.

  9. Introduce a combination of version labels and version dependent permissions.

    Compared to legacy ECM systems, versioning in box is limited to data states over time. There is no notion of a document lifecycle attached to a certain version (WIP, draft, published).

    The mandatory check in/out of legacy ECM makes the system very user unfriendly. However, it would be nice if we could somehow label certain versions. The list of labels could either be fixed, or user definable.

    If we combine this feature with a new permission: "view documents with status published", we could now have one directory where people work on their documents, but external people would only see the…

    2 votes

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  11. Copy API to allow copying files from a managed users account to the admin account of the caller

    There is no API action to copy or download files that is invisible from the user who owns the content. When copying files, there is no way to copy the files from a users account to the admin account (so that the copy of these files can then be reviewed and downloaded by compliance teams without creating access stats on the original file).

    An alternative was to directly download the files from the users account however there is no way to not create access stats when doing so.

    I am therefore suggesting the download endpoint have an added input for…

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  13. Modifications to Folder Name/Description in Event Stream

    We are concerned that Editors can change the name or description of folders. Therefore, we are asking for an event in the stream to notify when this occurs so we can revert the changes back to historical values.

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  15. Just in time User Provisioning / Licensing

    The current way of licensing is old school. Instead, you could leverage Okta's just-in-time provisioning: https://help.okta.com/en/prev/Content/Topics/Security/Security_Authentication.htm?cshid=Security_Authentication_JIT#Security_Authentication_JIT

    Then (with SSO required & on the fly), Box grants everyone in an org an acct after logging in thru SSO, they're auto-provisioned a Box instance, and a license is registered/"billed" to company.

    1 vote

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  16. Customization of error message in Azure

    With other providers, it is possible to customize the error message that users get when they are invited to create a Box account without being part of a security group and having auto-rolling on.

    As the error message creates a lot of confusion, it would be great if we could replace the message with something customized in order to give clear instructions to the users as to what steps need to be taken to create a new Box account with that particular email domain.

    0 votes

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    not planned  ·  jfan responded

    Thank you for your submission. However, this does not have enough demand in order to be prioritized.

    We will reconsider with additional use cases.

  17. Provide event trigger for renaming a file for webhooks.

    Create a script to automatically rename files that have had their name changed. This would be easier if there was an event trigger so that we could proactively run the script using a web hook.

    We can run a script once a day or something to do this based on a lookup table with folder IDs and the names we are SUPPOSED to have.

    1 vote

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  18. Trashed items: include details about the deleter

    When a user makes a GET call for all trashed items, the response does not include details (name/user ID) of the user who trashed each item. This is inconsistent with the Web App view of a user's trash. The Web App view includes the name of the item deleter.

    5 votes

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  19. FTP not available to external users for Enterprise accounts.

    Currently FTP for Box is only available to Business and Enterprise accounts for bulk migration of data. It is not available for Personal accounts (Free or Pro).

    This is problematic for Enterprise users that have external vendors, partners, customers (collaborators) that need to upload a large data set to their Enterprise account through FTP.

    Since these external collaborators are Free users, they do not have access to FTP but are still collaborating with us.

    REQUEST: Add support for FTP uploads for external collaborators that are specifically collaborating with a paying Enterprise Box account?

    8 votes

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    not planned  ·  amin responded

    This is not currently planned. We will reconsider this with additional demand.

  20. Automatically change file modified date upon upload if modified date is out of range and upload fails

    We are trying to upload files that have a modified date of year 1600. We would like for Box to automatically change the modified date upon upload instead of the upload failing

    If files have a modified date outside the UNIX range (1970-2038), the upload will fail.

    1 vote

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    not planned  ·  jfan responded

    Thank you for the submission. There are no current plans to change this behavior for this individual use case. We will reconsider with additional demand.

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