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Require Editing ONLY via Office Online for Certain Files (disable Box Edit at the file level)

Use Case: I have a spreadsheet that I know will be highly collaborative; as such, I want to prevent people from being able to use Box Edit with the file and I want to require that they edit it using Office Online due to enhanced co-authoring, etc.

Basically, this would be a 'only allow edits using Office Online'-type setting at the file level.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ridiculous this feature is not supported.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    MS Sharepoint has this feature and one of the reason I prefer it over Box. Unfortunately my organization uses Box and versioning always gets messed up when I have a file that require a big group to work on it collaboratively

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Another for the "Yes Please" pile.

    This would be helpful

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a must as some users just don't "get it" and have to be forced into the collaborative environment.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    For big companies with a lot of shared files this is a MUST!
    Any update on this one?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agreed that this would be very helpful in ensuring there is no loss of data on certain documents. As a related concept it would also be helpful to allow requiring locking for documents at a document, folder, or tenant level. The latter would not necessarily solve the issues of the former and I would consider them separate requests.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Supporting this concept. It would make some workflows significantly more stable.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    The ability to flag a document or folder to only be edited with MS-Office online and hence preventing users to open it with their local MS-Office installation would ease up our collaboration by a lot! Please consider to implement this!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE DEVELOP THIS!
    a very simple feature, to be able to select how we want users to interact with a workbook.
    So that we can block users from creating multiple copies, and force them to do Excel ONline.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please turns this feature on, i have lots of co authoring users being able to open online or full office is creating new versions all over the place. I really don't want to have to move some files over to SharePoint.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is definitely a desired feature. Any progress?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This functionality will go a long way to help with data loss prevention.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This would be super helpful for us. Version control is a big problem and this could prevent. Please consider adding at a file or folder level.

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