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cfiessinger
Nov 17, 2016Microsoft
New feature: Introducing a new file experience for groups in Outlook on the web
Today, we've announced a new file experience for groups in Outlook on the web. People frequently rely on email to edit and share documents with their teams, and this new experience makes it easier to...
Dennis Gaida
Nov 17, 2016Iron Contributor
Great integrative feature!
Two gripes I have straight away:
- "Activity" shows the last action for SharePoint files (e.g. modified/uploaded) but shows "E-Mail subject" for e-mailed files. Two different types of information in the same column. Also: I don't really care about the last activity, do I? I mean "Modified" doesn't even mean that the file was modified since the last time I saw it, so it is not really of use to me.
- The Save to group library / Edit and reply are almost the same and produce weird results - bear with me:
- I e-mailed the file "TestFile.docx" to the group. The file shows up in Files. Awesome!
- I like my files at one place so I "Save to group library". Awesome!
- I now have two "TestFile.docx" under files. One from the mail, one in SharePoint. A non technical user doesn't know this as I only have Activity=Uploaded and Activity="Testfile" (my mail subject)
- Somebody else sees the initial file and open it.
- He clicks on "Edit and reply". Another version is created in SharePoint. I now have "TestFile1.docx"
So I now have three TestFiles as seen in the screenshot attached to the post - a user wouldn't know what to do with this.
Dennis Gaida
Nov 17, 2016Iron Contributor
A follow up:
- I deleted both TestFiles from SharePoint (they're also removed from Files. Great!)
- I now have two files in Files: TestFile.docx (from the initial mail) and TestFile(2).docx which is "Shared" according to the Activity. Also the date is 8 hours ago?!
Something seems wrong here. As before, see attached screenshot.