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Warning when changing metadata associated with retention policy
Warn or prevent the user if they are changing a metadata value associated with a retention policy from a value with a longer ret policy to one with a shorter ret policy
4 votesThank you for the suggestion! At the moment there is no plan for this feature. We may look into this in the future.
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54 votes
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Disallow special characters that are not accepted by Windows Explorer or Mac Finder
in order to minimize issues with prohibited characters in Box Drive/Sync.
14 votesWe don’t have plans to disallow the use of certain characters on Drive, but we can consider improving the UX when a file error occurs due to one of these unsupported characters
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Embed Slack into Box Web Page
Embed Slack Plug-in into bottom right corner of Box Web Page, so companies who use both solutions can get the best of Slack, while working out of Box.
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Ability to re-arrange All Files page on Drive, including external folders, for organizational purposes.
We would like to be able to move non-owned and external folders around for organizational purposes on their private Drive, without impacting the actual external/owner of the folder. For example: Company X shared Folder A with me at Company Y. I would like to move Folder A to my Company X folder in Drive so it's not clogging my All Files page (without this impacting Company X's folder).
9 votesThanks for the suggestion! We’re looking at ways to improve content sprawl in the future on Box Drive. We’ll consider your suggestion, along with other options, to help solve this problem.
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Support EU-specific patterns for upload policies
We would like to see options in upload policies for "If a document contains:" that are not just US-centric, ex: European Identification #‘s
2 votesThank you for the suggestion! At the moment there is no plan for this feature. We may look into this in the future.
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Add pdf support in the save to box option
The "save as" option in Office support pdf extension but this is not included in the "save to box" option. If a user wantss to upload a pdf (originated from office) there are a couple more steps they have to do.
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Granular caching ability for Box Drive
Right now, Box Drive pre-caches any content within a folder as it’s accessed. This can create an issue if there is a large file (~1 GB Executable) in the folder on Box which causes the native file explorer to hang.
We would like granular caching ability for Box Drive to set a file size so that not everything needs to be pre-cached.
5 votesAs some commenters noted, files are not cached automatically when users access a folder. Rather, the metadata on the files within a folder get cached. Files themselves will only be cached/downloaded if a user double-clicks on them.
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Allow Excel's Shared Workbook feature to work on Box.
Microsoft Excel has a feature called Shared Workbook that allows multiple users to edit Excel file simultaneously and still migrate each modifications into each others' Excel files.
Box doesn't support this type of feature, but Google and Dropbox supports to notify users on (Office) file modification status to provide similar feature / user experience.
Dropbox:
https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2015/10/dropbox-badge-now-available/17 votesWhile we won’t be building in support for the Shared Workbook feature as requested, we will be providing capabilities in the near-future that will provide more visibility when you open a file that is locked in order to prevent file editing conflicts.
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Custom Branding and Customized Email Notifications
- the from field
- the colors
- any logo
- the signature
36 votesThank you for this feedback. We currently do not have plans to expand custom branding to all emails. We will post updates to this thread if that changes in the future.
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"Open With" UI Element Documentation is broken - does the feature work?
Does the "Box Content Open With" feature work for anyone?
I see it as being broken in the developer documentation and I'm unable to get it working with my own app after following the documentation.
1 voteWe no longer support the OpenWith UI element for any new customers as of December 21, 2021.
See details - https://developer.box.com/guides/embed/ui-elements/open-with/
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Allow comments on more than one file at a time. Also it would be great if the comments would follow a file.
Comments on multiple files.
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Make license type info available via API
We'd like to get the license type info (free or paid) when getting the below log by API.
- eventtype:COLLABORATIONINVITE
- event_type:SHARE
Account Type: Unmanaged User / Managed User, etc
User TypeL Lite (10GB) / Enterprise (Yearly), etc3 votesThis is not currently planned as there is unclear purpose and implementing it may expose sensitive information.
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ELIMINATE the display message " We're sorry, this file type is not currently supported" " as it terrifies our customers
Display message "We're sorry, this file type is not currently supported" scares our customers on the download shared link page. They think it is an ERROR and will not download the .ISO or other file that cannot be PREVIEWED. Make the message SPECIFIC to PREVIEW:
"Preview not available for this file type, click Download to continue"
or just
"Preview not available for this file type"Saying it is UNSUPPORTED means too many bad things. If this is not fixed, we will leave BOX. Seriously.
3 votesInteresting feature request! However, we’re not able to prioritize it at this time due to competing priorities.
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Add configuration to specify a folders data center
Add the ability to allow files to be stored across multiple data centers. We have multiple offices around the world being able to locate the files closer to where they are needed will address our performance & availability concerns.
This should be configurable by folder and inherited to the sub folders.
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The ability to add an auto-expiration on specific external collaborators access to a specified file or folder.
I would like an Expiration option date picker to be added to the Collaboration Invite window. This will allow our company to let a user privilege expire without us being forced to expire by auto-deleting a folder, or sharing a link that expires but can also be shared with others in the meantime.
18 votesUnfortunately this is not planned in the near-term, but please do keep adding use cases so we can consider this request for the future.
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Limit large files to desktop viewing only
Really large files should not be shown on mobile device and so we'd like to inhibit people from being able to see it.
Large files 100+ Gig, ‘rushes’ from ad shoots moved in disk, genomics files at academia,… must solve user experience issue with mobile/web – we want to be able to classify that content as desktop only.
5 votesThis is not on the roadmap for 2019, but is a great suggestion that we may look into in the future.
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Casper EMM
Add casper to emm.
3 votesThis feature is not on the 2019 roadmap.
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Shared link in mobile browser does not download
Following the download prompt from a shared link in a mobile browser takes you to a stream of the video AND DOES NOT download the video to your device.
2 votes
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