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  1. New event type for modification of upload-email properties

    A new event type for modification of upload-email properties, such as access type (in addition to the existing enable/disable events for upload email functionality)

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  2. On the browser interface, the option to Sync and Download should be the top two options in the menu

    On the browser interface, the option to Sync a file or folder is in the secondary, “More Options” section of the fly-out menu. Shouldn’t "Sync" and "Download" be the top two options on the fly-out menu? That’s what most of us want to do when we use the browser interface.

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    0 comments  ·  Web App  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Brad Monroe responded

    Thanks for the feedback! While we’re always looking for ways to improve usability on the site, we don’t plan to make this change since we’re moving toward the ‘Mark for Offline’ feature with the newer Box Drive desktop app as the long-term replacement for the ‘syncing’ features of Box Sync.

    If you haven’t checked out Box Drive, I recommend downloading it and trying it out, especially now that it allows you to view all of your Box folders and files directly within Windows Explorer / macOS Finder on your desktop, and you can simply right-click a folder and choose ‘make available offline’ right from your desktop too.
    More information about Box Drive is here: https://community.box.com/t5/Box-Drive/ct-p/BoxDrive

  3. Limited Service Related Emails to Certain Users

    Do this instead of having users create inbox filters to avoid these messages.

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  5. Make it easier for users to specify their preferred text editor (or any other type of editor)

    In many tech companies, different developer staff have different preferences on what text editors to use when editing files with Box Edit. Although the default editor for text files can be changed by modifying a registry key on the user's PC, the customer IT team (who does not like the idea of users modifying their PC registry) would like to have a user option where the user can specify their preferred text editor (similar to what is currently available in the Box user settings for Word, PPT and Excel files).

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Web App  ·  Admin →
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    not planned  ·  Brad Monroe responded

    The Box Edit app relies on the ‘default’ app settings that you have chosen at the OS-level (meaning in Windows settings or macOS settings) for what is the ‘default’ app for opening a given file type. If you’d like a specific file type opened in a different desktop app on their computer, simply change your default app settings within your Windows or macOS settings.

    We only have a native preference in the Box web app when a specific file type has additional cloud-based editing integrations available on Box (like Office files, for example).

  6. Show size of folder when logging into Box (instead of when clicking on folder)

    See the size of the folder displayed on the first screen upon logging in to Box rather than having to click into a folder

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  7. Web App: Grey-out "Allow users to join as" setting when blocked via admin console.

    We have many users who have opened up tickets or ask questions in regards to the folder setting “Allow anyone who can access this folder from a shared link to join as a collaborator. Allow users to join as.”

    This option is disabled, yet unlike the other options which are disabled, this is not greyed out. It throws a non-descript error of “Sorry, there was a problem saving the settings for this folder” which leads users to believe there is an issue with their access level, rather than this is not current functionality. Can we please have this option greyed…

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  9. File Checker

    I would like my program to be able to access all .pdf files in a given folder, and read them to find and extract specific information on each .pdf document like scraping the text data in each of the .pdf fields. This data would then be used to compare to an excel spreadsheet.

    This would essentially be a file checker. Making sure that the information entered on a .pdf file is the information that we have on a separate excel spreadsheet.

    Thoughts?

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  10. Do not display custom logo/branding by country or region

    Would like to have our custom logo blocked for a specific country due the political sensitivity associated with that region.

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  11. Improve CORS whitelist wildcard support

    I would love to be able to use wildcards in CORS with a little more specificity. In particular, for review apps on Heroku, you will have a url that is auto-generated for each pull request, so something like http://my-app-dev-pr-523.herokuapp.com. I would like to be able to add http://my-app-dev-pr*.herokuapp.com to the CORS list but it currently flags that is an improper URL so I have to do the much more broad (less secure) http://*.herokuapp.com

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  13. Folder upload endpoint for API

    The ability to copy a folder from a local machine and upload it via the API

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  14. Add ability to change permission settings for Box Drive to allow the share operation.

    For example, we have a scanner and want to be able to directly scan to the Box Drive folder.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Desktop  ·  Admin →
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  15. Allow for obfuscated URL references

    When sharing a URL there are situations where one would rather obfuscate the company name (instead of showing such). Perhaps either there can be a "substitute" name that would be known to Box but would not be determineable by a recipient.

    This feature is key when supplying evidence and wanting to avoid be named as a witness. At the moment, our company name appears in the URL making us a target for deposition.

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  17. Prevent users from knowing whether or not a valid Box account exists in signup flow

    You should not let users know that an account exists due to security reasons. This gives away the identity of email addresses associated with Box accounts. Please update your account creation flow accordingly.

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  18. Send account creation emails without password language

    We turn off "account creation" emails because of SSO.

    Now when a user is added to the account, they are not going to receive any email letting them know the account is available for use.

    It would be much better if we could simply remove the password reset language from the welcome message, but still send it.

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  19. Allow filtering by application name or service type within the reporting UI (ie: Box FTP Server).

    Currently, I can filter in the reporting UI by clicking things like the user or file name from the reporting results. I used to be able to click on "Service: etc", but it didn't do anything.

    Box has since removed the ability to click on this, but we would find it helpful to be able to filter these results within the reporting UI.

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  20. Rollback option when db crash

    After creating folder or uploading files into box there will be chance of occuring backend database crash or lose connection between datasource . In this case we should roll back our transaction(like revert folder creation or file upload).

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    Many actions in both are idemptotent and can be safely retried. For those which are not, it is the responsibility of a client to implement transaction guarantees if required. There are common patterns for this such as the two-phase commit and SAGA pattern. If there is more information for a specific capability that is required to faciliate these, please add that to the comments.

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