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Re: Files Shared with Me/By

Hi all,

 

Shared With Us on Group-connected sites is the only thing we have in product today here and I don't have anything new to share about further improvements in this space. 

 

I am curious though, how would you all answer these questions?

  • What should show up in a "Shared with Us" view for a Group-Connected Site? 
  • What should show up in the view for a non-group connected site? 
  • What is the definition of a file that is "Shared By Us"? 

 

Thanks for your feedback!

 

Stephen Rice

OneDrive Program Manager II

3 Replies

  • Clemens Roth's avatar
    Clemens Roth
    Copper Contributor

    StephenRice 

    I believe that especially the "Shared by us" (or shared outside the group) view is important. We are using group-connected TeamSites and people are asking a lot about the option to easily see what files and folders have been shared outside the group, including links and specific people in the company and externals. Does this make sense?

     

    In addition to that people need an easy, visual way (not in the details view) to see that a folder has been shared with other people than the group members to prevent them from accidentally sharing files that shouldn't be shared. I'm thinking of a something like an icon that indicates that there is external access. Especially when the external access has been inherited from a folder... 

     

    Looking forward to your reply!

    Best

    Clemens

  • Naveen Karla's avatar
    Naveen Karla
    Iron Contributor

    Rather than a Shared With Us view for a group it'll be better if we have a shared page per site where each user can view all files folders or sharing links they have created and manage access from there and site admin can view all the shares from the site and manage access.

  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    I personally don't think you can really program or get much us out of a "Shared with us" view, I think what's more important is what Files are being shared out by the Team/Group/Site. Seems that this is available on the site usage page thou, I haven't really dug into it enough to know what qualifies to show up on that list, but having a view similar to How onedrive has so you can quickly act / select / change on these files with Sharing links, would be nice to have.