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  1. 1 vote

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  2. Break waterfall permissions

    Allow for restricted permissions within a shared folder (so permissions are not inherited from the parent folder)

    429 votes

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  3. Support Gov Cloud on Azure

    This is in addition to AWS

    1 vote

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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Add Data Center in China

    We have data residency requirements for China.

    12 votes

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    not planned  ·  jfan responded

    This is not planned for the short-term roadmap. We will reconsider with additional customer demand.

  9. 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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  10. The ability to perform advanced searches despite having KeySafe enabled.

    They are open to, similar to the KeySafe concept, having a way to plug Box search into their own index.

    9 votes

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  11. 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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  12. Add "additional_details" to events endpoint for MOVE, COPY, RENAME events

    Presently, security & events reports run from the admin console include "change details" for these events - essentially, what the prior state was before the event occurred. The events endpoint does not include these details.

    Request to add this to the additional_details of an event as it's reported through the admin events stream for the MOVE, COPY, and RENAME events.

    If RENAME, show previous name of the folder
    If MOVE/COPY, show previous parent of the folder

    10 votes

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  13. Receive notification when transfer of content is completed

    When deleting and transferring content to another user and an error is thrown, it is not clear to the user when all the content has successfully been moved due to the error message thrown.

    We would like to know when all the content has finally completed so we can delete the user without any concerns.

    5 votes

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  14. Set an expiration date on collaborations in a folder

    Similar to how shared links can expire.

    12 votes

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  15. Option to Show Full Folder Hierarchy when Added Only to Subfolder

    Right now, when collaborators are added to a folder, they are not able to see the folder hierarchy that is above the level at which they were added. This is great in many situations.

    However, there are various scenarios where customers would like users to have the 'full view' of the folder hierarchy above.

    13 votes

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  16. Automatically remove external collaborators at the folder level

    We want the ability to automatically remove external collaborators after a certain period of time, and we want to be able to customize this depending on the folder in question.

    Currently, we can expire external collaborators at the global Enterprise level but this behavior isn't desirable across all folders.

    We want to be able to set external collab expiration at the folder level with the ability for different folders to have different expiration periods when the collaborators would be automatically removed.

    20 votes

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    not planned  ·  Anonymous responded

    Thanks for the feedback! However, this is an edge use case which would add complexity to the product. We will review this with additional demand.

  17. Folder transfer takes too long - user loses access

    Currently when content is transferred from one owner to another owner, collaborators lose access to the transferred content until the move is complete. Depending on the size of the move it can be an extended period until collaborators can access the content

    13 votes

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  18. Shared Links - Allow Linking to Specific Page of Document

    Example: SlideShare allows you to create a shared link that opens the slides up directly into a specific slide. In this case, slide 10: http://www.slideshare.net/kaz.goto/ss-65352833/10

    Box Use Case: I want to give you a link to a multi-slide/document file, but I want you to start on page 5 first.

    10 votes

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  19. 7 votes

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  20. 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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