12.4.2. Publishing data

Privacy

When using this publish feature, you, as the current owner of this data, are responsible for being careful with privacy rules and for complying with legal obligations (Copyright and Privacy Laws).

You are the responsible party, according to the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG, Germany) or other Privacy Acts of your country, especially when publishing personal data.

According to European and other national regulations, you, as the responsible party, are in charge of data economy, and must not publish or forward personal data without the person's consent.

Beyond legal obligations, Open-Xchange would like to encourage extreme care when dealing with personal data. Please carefully consider where you store and to whom you forward personal data. Please ensure appropriate access protection, e.g.: by proper password protection.

If you publish data using the publish function, other users or external users can use those data. You can do the following:

How to publish an address book's or files folder's content:

  1. Launch the Address Book oder Files app.

  2. Select the file folder containing the content to be published in the folder tree.

  3. Click the Add folder icon below the folder tree. Click on Publish.

  4. Set a publication name in the Publish folder window. You can use the following options:

    • Select a template to set the content and display of the data published.

    • Protect the published data from unauthorized access by enabling Add cipher code.

    • Send an E-Mail with the access data by enabling Share Link by E-mail.

  5. In order to finish the process, click on Publish.

Tip: A folder with published data are marked with the Cloud icon . If clicking the icon, the Publications and Subscriptions settings are opened.