What's new in Files?
Find out what’s new or updated in Files.
The following features are new for Files in Connections:
- Thumbnail view
is a gallery of images that represent files. The thumbnail shows the file's status (private, community, or shared externally), sync status, and whether version conflicts might exist. Hovering over a thumbnail image opens its reverse side where we can see file details, download it, or preview it.
- Comments in Files supports the use @mentions, a method of notifying
colleagues of the post.
- File Preview becomes available when we click anywhere on the back of the thumbnail to get an advance viewing of the file. The file preview should give you enough information about the file's content to decide whether to download it. Also, on the About this file tab page of an image file, a link to a preview displays.
- Sync is a high-level folder where we can add files to be synchronized to the desktop so we can work with those files offline. Syncing is a way to share a file and keep it synchronized when multiple people are updating it concurrently.
Being able to synchronize files is dependent on the desktop plug-ins being installed on the client.
- External users from outside the company or organization can collaborate on files shared with them. Also, they can tag, organize files in folders, and access files from other applications, such as Communities. Content shared by externals users has this icon
associated with it. Refer to What
can external users do? for more information.
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