Drive

9.1. The Drive Components

The Drive app includes the following components.

Search bar

Enables you to search for files.

Folder tree

Displays the folders. Enables you to navigate the folder structure. In order to open the folder tree, click on the View button in the toolbar. Enable Folder view. Depending on the groupware configuration, the folder tree contains the following entries:

  • My files. Contains your personal files and folders. Per default, it contains folders for documents, music, images, and videos.

  • Trash. Contains the files deleted by you.

  • My shares. Shows the files and folders shared by you for other users or external partners.

  • Shared files. Contains files shared with you by other users.

  • Public files. Contains files shared with all users.

  • Buttons below the folders offer functions for adding cloud storage accounts that you set up in third party products like Dropbox.

The following functions are available:

  • If clicking on a folder, its contents are displayed.

  • The Folder-specific actions icon next to the selected folder offers functions for organizing data and for exchanging data.

  • Depending on the groupware's configuration, additional buttons are available below the folders. Those buttons allow to launch a wizard to configure various clients.

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Toolbar

Contains the following elements. Note: Some buttons are only displayed, if objects have been selected.

  • New button. Contains the following functions:

    • Add local file. Adds one or multiple local files.

    • Add and encrypt local file. Adds and encrypts a local file. This function is only available if you have access to Guard.

    • Add note. Creates a simple text file.

    • New text document. Creates a new text document.

    • New spreadsheet Creates a new spreadsheet.

    • Add new folder. Creates a new folder.

  • Share icon . This function allows to share files or folders.

  • Viewer icon . Shows the contents of the folder's files in the viewer.

  • Present icon . Starts a presentation. This function is only available if you select a document in the PowerPoint or PDF format.

  • Download icon . Downloads the files selected by you. Multiple files are downloaded as zip archive.

  • Delete icon . Deletes the files or folders selected by you.

  • Actions icon . Opens a menu with further functions:

    Note: If you selected multiple files, some functions are not available.

  • View button. Allows to select the view in the display area.

Navigation bar

The navigation path is located below the toolbar. It contains the following:

  • Navigation path. It shows the path to the folder opened. To open a parent folder, click on a path entry.

  • Select button. Contains functions for selecting or filtering objects in the display area:

    • select all files and folders, select all files, clear the selection

    • display certain file types only, display all file types

  • Sort by button. Sorts the files in the display area by various criteria.

Display area

Displays the files and folders as list, icons or tiles In order to select a view, click on the View button in the toolbar. The views are differentiated as follows:

  • For each file and folder a row with the following content is displayed in the List view.

    • An icon. There are different icons for the single object types.

    • The name of the file or folder.

    • Date or time of the last change

    • In the case of files, the size is displayed.

  • For each file and folder the following information is displayed in the Icons view.

    • An icon. If available, a file preview is shown.

    • The name of the file or folder.

  • Files and folders are displayed as squares in the Tiles view.

The following functions are available.

  • In order to display details of a selected object, click on View in the toolbar. Enable File Details. The following information are displayed in a sidebar:

    • Details. Shows general information: the name of the file or folder, the file size, the date of the last change, the editor's name, folder, link

      If you shared the object, the button next to Shares can be used to open the dialog window for editing shares.

    • Description. Shows file comments, if available.

      In order to add a description, click on Add a description. In order to edit a description, double-click on the description.

    • Upload a new version button. Click on this button to select a file that is uploaded as new version.

    • If there are several file versions, the Versions area is displayed. For each version the following information is displayed:

      • The version's file name. If clicking on it, a menu with several functions opens:

      • The version's file size

      • name of the user who uploaded the version

      • date and time of the version's upload

  • In order to display specific object types only, click on Select in the navigation bar. Enable an entry below Filter.

    In order to display all objects, click on Select in the navigation bar. Enable the entry None below Filter.

  • In order to sort objects, click on Sort by in the navigation bar. Enable an entry.

  • Select a file or folder by clicking on it. You can also use your system's multi selection functions.

    You can also use checkboxes to select files or folders. In order to display the checkboxes, click on the View button in the toolbar. Enable Checkboxes.

    To select all objects or files or to clear the selection, click on Select in the navigation bar. Click on an entry below Select.

  • If double-clicking on a folder, it will be opened.

  • If double-clicking on a file, it will be opened in the viewer.

Viewer

Shows the contents of files. In order to launch the viewer, do one of the following:

  • Double-click on a file in the display area

  • Select a file. Click the Viewer icon in the toolbar.

The viewer includes the following elements:

  • Name of the selected file. If clicking on the name, the Rename dialog window opens.

  • Depending on the selected file type, the respective functions are displayed.

    • If the selected file is editable, the Edit button is displayed.

    • If a document template is shown, the New from template button is displayed.

    • Depending on the content of the selected file, the Zoom out icon and the Zoom in icon will be displayed.

    • If a presentation or a PDF document is shown, the Present icon is displayed.

  • Download icon. Downloads the file.

  • Share icon . This function allows to share data.

  • Actions icon . If clicking the icon, a menu with further functions opens:

  • View details icon . If clicking the icon, a sidebar with information about the file is opened or closed. The sidebar contains the same functions as the sidebar in the display area.

  • Pop out icon . Clicking on it displays the contents of the selected file on a new page. For documents in the Office format, there are page navigation functions available:

  • Close icon . If clicking the icon, the viewer will be closed.

  • A view of the file contents, if available

    If there are further files, icons for browsing are displayed to the left and to the right of the view.