Benefits and Examples of Sharing Folder Ownership

After you create a new folder you have the option to add other owners to the folder beside yourself.  This can be helpful when you might have the initial idea for something but feel others in your network might be more appropriate to generally manage the folder and any content, including who else from your [...]

Take Complete Control of a Folder by Making Everyone a Reader

This can be helpful when sharing types of content that you really don’t want altered, but ok for a few others to view and comments to.  Some examples: Working with Customers/Clients: For small businesses or freelancing, you can share a network with a customer, including presentations, proposals, contracts or other files in documents, project tasks [...]

Minimize Folder View in One Click

As briefly mentioned in the posting earlier this week, Folder Options Integrated, one of the features included an option to minimize the folders.   This can be done in a single click and would like to elaborate further on the feature, especially helpful for working with smaller displays such as your laptop, iPad or other tablet. [...]

Organizing Content with Folders Instead of Pages

While it might seem great if everything that you did worked out perfectly, it just doesn’t happen, hindsight is 20/20, best you can do is probably just be grateful you learn the lesson when you did rather than later. Such is the case with the Pages application, RIP. How it Started: The original idea or [...]

Folder Options Integrated, More Efficient Viewing

To make it easier in working with the folders and viewing your content, a couple new features have been implemented, including integrating the folder options at the top of your network and adding a new feature, Hide/Show Folders, helpful for working with your network on smaller displays. Here’s a screenshot of the changes: And a [...]

Layout Tweak for Option to Include Content from Sub-Folders

Along with the recent change for hiding the folder summary in the folder title bar, the option to include or not include content from sub-folders has also been added. Where It Was Previously this was located as a drop-down option between the users of the folder and the applications.  This drop-down option had a couple [...]

Hide Summary Information for Smaller Displays

To help users with smaller displays in viewing more of their content, a Hide Summary button has been added.  Useful for users with smaller laptops, an iPad, other tablets or mobile that have a smaller display. By clicking “Hide Summary”, the summary information of the folder will be hidden, including the description and whom the [...]

Add Multiple Folder Owners from the Contacts Application

Aligning to the recent change within the folder overview, the Contacts application also includes the option to add multiple owners to a folder. This is shown when you click the Contacts tab followed by the new filter called Owners, as displayed in the screenshot below: What types of users should be added as an Owner? [...]

All Folder Expansion, Add Content and New Users

Continuing the theme of making your network easier to use with other users, the All folder has received a couple changes, both for sharing content with others as well as adding new users to a network. Sharing Content With Others Previously, while you could view content integrated from across your network, you could not add [...]

Edit and Add Other Users Directly from Folder Overview

Along with the other content added to the folder overview section, you can also change the users the folder is shared with. This includes changing the permissions of Owner, Editor or Reader as well as adding other users from your network. Summary of Changes Here are the different options available. User Name: Clicking on a [...]

Folder Options Moved to the Center

To help make some of the options with folders more intuitive, a few of them have been moved from the left navigation section to the folder overview section in the middle of the page. These include the options to Edit the folder, send an email notification and sharing folders with others.  The options to Create, [...]

Adding Users to Multiple Folders at Once

There is now a new layout for adding other users to sub-folders.   This can be helpful when either creating a number of new projects or folders, or adding a new user to your network.  Either way, you’re adding users to many different folders at the same time, making it a little easier to share content [...]

Manage Multiple Projects with Sub-Folders

By being a little creative with the folder layout and some filtering options, you can set up a range of projects both big and small. This can be helpful from either having a cornucopia of projects ready to go, or starting with a small seed of a project and finding it growing too big, need [...]

See All Your Websites in the All Folder

As you can usually find websites that specialize in just about anything, adding them to various folders and projects can become a common occurrence.  Adding some places of interest when planning a trip, customer or supplier websites for business activities, restaurant websites for going out and so on. While it’s nice to have the websites [...]

Moving a Note from a Private Folder to a Shared Folder

This can be helpful when initially adding an idea or note in one of your more private folders, but later decide it’s ok and would be a good idea to share with others.  While you could just share the folder, if the folder contains other content you’re not yet ready to share, this might not [...]

Create a New Folder and Share with Others at the Same Time

To make adding users to new folders a little easier, you can now do so at the same time as when you’re creating the folder. Creating a New Folder This is done by first clicking the appropriate parent folder (in a new network this would be the “All” folder). Once the folder is selected, click [...]

Sharing Folders Moved to Contacts, a More Intuitive Process

To help make sharing folders with other users on your network a little easier, this function has been moved from the folder section into its’ more appropriate place, the Contacts application. Sharing Folders in Contacts This way, after you add a new folder, just go to the Contacts tab, add other users from your network [...]

New Option to Include or Not Include Content from Sub-Folders

Now when you log into your Odysen Intranet, you’ll see a new feature in the folder overview section.  This is an option to include content from only the folder you’re looking at, or to also include content from any sub-folders. Here’s a screenshot of the new feature: This can be a helpful option to quickly [...]

Content Integration Expands from All folder to Parent Folders

To help see various content items within a nest of folders or sub-folders, application items are now integrated in parent folders, similar to the integration within the All folder. For example, if you create a folder for a new project, create a few sub-folders for different aspects of the project, and within those sub-folders are [...]

Ability to Edit Content from the All Folder

Now when viewing an application item in the All folder, you can also have access to the edit functions, including editing the item, moving the item from one folder to another, sending an email notification of the item, deleting an item, as well as specific functions for the applications, such as the Take action feature [...]