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Collections feature request: Let us mark a collection for offline usage
HotCakeX, this is an interesting capability, would you expect that the entire page get saved, or just the link and whatever metadata gets pulled out today? Thanks - Elliot
so the default behavior would be to add only the link of the web contents to the collections and it also gets synced too, but if the user needs to have access to those contents while offline, they can do so by clicking on "make it available offline" or something like that. also the offline/online state of the collections should be synced as well. so that when you have 2 devices and you mark a collection on of them to be available offline, the same collection will be automatically downloaded on the other device too, for offline usage.
- Darryl_BOct 10, 2019Brass Contributor
HotCakeX, thanks a lot for this idea. I may have more questions to help me clearly define expectations of an offline Collection. For now I will add this to our backlog as a feature request so we can consider this especially if others are asking for it. I find the sync scenario you mention very interesting as well, that if you set a Collection to be available offline, that all devices would get the offline version.
I'm a Program Manager on the Collections team, so if you have other feedback please let me know.
Thank you again,
Darryl
- HotCakeXOct 10, 2019MVP
Hi,
Sure i'll be glad to answer any questions regarding that.
yes there are other suggestions, please take a look at my previous post:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Edge-Collections-Feature-request-and-bug-problem-report/m-p/818156
the 8 items I wrote about in that post are the rest of my feedback, together with this, they can greatly improve collections feature and use cases for everyone.
Thank you very much 🙂