Allow direct download links to excel sheets
Issue: User wants to be able to add direct download links to excel sheets (set to people in the company) and have the built-in Excel browser (I think it's a mini version of IE on Windows) recognize an authenticated browsing session
What currently happens:
User inserts/clicks on link > new window pops up > user must authenticate box account > content is inserted into excel correctly
If the user closes the document and reopens it > clicks on the link > the window pops up again > user has to select Part of company X? Continue > then it populates the content
Ideally:
Pop-up window would recognize the user is successfully logged into standard IE browser and not require login in mini IE version (this may be more of a Microsoft thing).
After authenticating in mini IE version users should no longer have to click "Part of company X? Continue" prompt each time they click on direct download hyperlink to populate the content in Excel (is this a limitation of our requirements for forcing users to click "Continue" when opening a new Box webpage in an authenticated browse?)
The business use case is that one could create data connections from box data files (such as .csv) to excel that would function when the direct download share option is set to 'People in the Company' as opposed to having to set it to 'Anybody with the Link' like I have to right now, which is a security risk.
This functionality is important as we use external agents to deliver new data files daily to our box files, so being able to create secure data connections would be great.
AdminEmily Maguire
(Admin, Box)
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