Outlook: Option for Attaching Actual File (Not the Shared Link)
Allow user to attach actual file (not the shared link) when using the 'Attach from Box' button within Outlook (via Box for Office).
Currently when a user uses the 'Attach from Box' button in Outlook, they're only able to add the file's shared link to the email. There are various scenarios where users (still) need to attach the actual file instead.
AdminApurva Parikh
(Admin, Box)
shared this idea
This does not align with our product philosophy. Users can attach a shared link with download permissions.
I would be interested to hear the use case for attaching files directly to the email.
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Anonymous
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I'll give you the use case. This is about the ability to conduct business. People are happily using links internally. We are not going to ask outside governmental agencies and vendors/partners to sign up for Box accounts (which can be banned at their particular organization anyway), and we cannot/will not create open links to get files that only the email recipient should get.
If you would allow attaching a file from Box Drive, that would be much more practical and time effective than having to download it, then attach it. And it would remove the nightmare with different versions on people's desktops. -
Anonymous
commented
Our whole company would use this feature all the time. When emailing documents to people outside the company, we nearly always send as attachments. Currently when I need to send a document I've been working on, I have to navigate out of Box and into my email, and find the document in order to attach it. Would make more sense if we could send as an attachment directly from Box.