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OneDrive Sharing UI "breaking" "Shared with Me" functionality
Glad to hear it Guy Johnson! Sorry we had to go through so much trial and error to figure this out. I'm going to send a copy of this thread to the team so we can make sure future iterations take all of this into account. If you have any other questions, let me know! Thanks!
MicrosoftJust came across this old thread, and decided to bump it back up because this "simplified" sharing experience is still there and still confusing my users. I get a handful of people asking me every day if we've disabled External Sharing because they are trying to share to an external domain that we have whitelisted and getting an error because they aren't clicking the little hyperlink to change the option.
I would urge you very strongly to make this more clear on the initial dialog box. I don't understand the need for or reason behind hiding that option behind a tiny hyperlink that everyone overlooks.
I would also urge you to focus on enterprise scenarios as opposed to anonymous links scenarios as you stated above. No enterprise that looks at security at all has anonymous links turned on, and those that do should probably think hard about whether that is a good idea. Do you really want anonymous users in your tenant with potential access to your IP? I don't, and my legal team certainly does not.
We're all more than willing to give you our feedback and guidance on these things StephenRice. I do this quite regularly for a number of product teams at Microsoft. Wictor Wilen and I even spent an entire day last week with the Microsoft Teams team in Bellevue giving feedback and talking about the future. Reach out anytime on here, or find me on Twitter and we'll setup some time to talk.
MicrosoftHi David Rosenthal,
Thanks for your feedback! All of the issues you mentioned should be addressed very soon. Please keep an eye on message center as we'll be posting more information there. When that goes live, we're also going to make sure there's a thread here on the community forums so we can do an informal Q/A on the changes. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
StephenRice wrote:Hi David Rosenthal,
Thanks for your feedback! All of the issues you mentioned should be addressed very soon. Please keep an eye on message center as we'll be posting more information there. When that goes live, we're also going to make sure there's a thread here on the community forums so we can do an informal Q/A on the changes. Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager IIHi StephenRice,
Looks like the update is out on FR (at least for us). First off, I like it. There are few issues here there, but overall I like the color coding. Here are a few screenshots with my comments above each:
I've selected the default "Attachments" folder in this users OneDrive and clicked Share. It shows the users name two times (only <username> and <username> can edit this item).
I've entered someone elses email adress and then clicked the Outlook Icon below. An email should have been generated according to the UI, but nothing came. The permissions worked though and the file showed up under the recipients "Shared with Me" (do the global sharing settings still apply here?)
The sharing process needs some finetuning. I would suggest 1) edit sharing options (color coding) 2) select sharing method (link or email - make the Outlook icon blue if selected, but don't send the email immediately) 3) when selecting email, show recipient field below 4) make users click "Send" manually - otherwise make it a "Copy Link" button.
Nothing special here (screenshot is just for the community members here). I like that you grey out "Anyone" if sharing outside is prohibited by "IT policy" - or because Office 365 Groups by default have this disabled. There is also a forth option between blue and orange (red icon) that says something along "people who already have access".
Sharing externally looks like this. I like it, though it's missing some additional text ("expiration date") for the date picker. As a new users I wouldn't know what this date picker would do :P Could be interpretated as something else, like date to send the link (I don't know - people get creative with their thinking :))
- StephenRice
Hi Ivan54,
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this along to the team, I know you've identified a few issues that are on our list to fix. Going through post step by step...
1) The user showing up twice in the link settings box is interesting. Pretty sure this is a bug.
2) When you click "Outlook", a new window should open directly into the Outlook web app with the link you've configured pasted in. I know I reported a bug with that just yesterday so you may be running into similar issues?
3) Yep, need to add "Expires: <Date>" because you're totally right and that doesn't make sense.
We'll be posting the Q/A thread around the time of the virtual summit but feel free to ping me with any issues and questiosn you might have.
Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
- Another suggestion would be to merge the "Share" and "Copy Link" buttons on the document library menu bars since their UI is about to merge. If I had to choose, I'd just use "Share".
- David Rosenthal
