Folderz Orientation

You can share one or more files and folders on your computer, and synchronize them with our Folderz server. Place files in your local shared directories, and those files are immediately synchronized to the server and to other devices using the Nextcloud Desktop Sync Client, Android app, or iOS app.

Supported Browsers

Supported Web browsers are:

Note: If you want to use Nextcloud Talk you need to run Mozilla Firefox 52 or later or Google Chrome/Chromium 49 or later.

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Navigating

By default, the Folderz Web interface opens to your Files page. You can add, remove, and share files, and make changes based on the access privileges set by you.

The main Files view.

The Folderz user interface contains the following fields and functions:

Note: You can also drag and drop files from your file manager into the Files Application View to upload them to your instance. Currently, the only Web browsers that support drag-and-drop folders are Chrome and Chromium.

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Bookmarks

This app provides you with a web interface for collecting and organizing bookmarks to the sites on the web that are precious to you. You can browse and filter your bookmarks via the tags you give them and by using the built-in search feature.

Furthermore, in order to be able to access your bookmarks anywhere, it also allows you to synchronize third-party clients via a built-in REST API.

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Circles

Circles allows your users to create their own groups of users/colleagues/friends. Those groups of users (or circles) can then be used by any other app for sharing purpose (files, social feed, status update, messaging, ...) through the Circles API

Different types of circles can be created:

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Contacts

Easily sync contacts from various devices with Folderz and edit them online.

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Deck

Deck is a kanban style organization tool aimed at personal planning and project organization for teams integrated with Folderz.

Deck - Manage cards on your board

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Talk

Video & audio conferencing app

Features

Supported Browsers

Firefox Chrome/Chromium Edge Safari Opera
✔️ 52 or later ✔️ 49 or later ⏳ Planned ⏳ Planned ❌ Not planned yet

 

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Calendar

Easily sync events from various devices with Folderz and edit them online.

Features

And in the works for the coming versions:

Supported Browsers

No support for Internet Explorer 10 and below.

Presentation Editor

Presentation Editor

Collaborative Presentation Editing

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Presentation Editor offers you the possibility to work at a presentation collaboratively with other users. This feature includes:

Co-editing

Presentation Editor allows to select one of the two available co-editing modes. Fast is used by default and shows the changes made by other users in realtime. Strict is selected to hide other user changes until you click the Save Save icon icon to save your own changes and accept the changes made by others. The mode can be selected in the Advanced Settings.

When a presentation is being edited by several users simultaneously in the Strict mode, the edited objects (autoshapes, text objects, tables, images, charts) are marked with dashed lines of different colors. The object that you are editing is surrounded by the green dashed line. Red dashed lines indicate that objects are being edited by other users. By hovering the mouse cursor over one of the edited passages, the name of the user who is editing it at the moment is displayed. The Fast mode will show the actions and the names of the co-editors once they are editing the text.

The number of users who are working at the current presentation is specified on the right side of the editor header - Number of users icon. If you want to see who exactly are editing the file now, you can click this icon or open the Chat panel with the full list of the users.

When no users are viewing or editing the file, the icon in the editor header will look like Manage document access rights icon allowing you to manage the users who have access to the file right from the document: invite new users giving them either full or read-only access, or deny some users access rights to the file. Click this icon to manage the access to the file; this can be done both when there are no other users who view or co-edit the document at the moment and when there are other users and the icon looks like Number of users icon.

As soon as one of the users saves his/her changes by clicking the Save icon icon, the others will see a note within the status bar stating that they have updates. To save the changes you made, so that other users can view them, and get the updates saved by your co-editors, click the Save icon icon in the left upper corner of the top toolbar. The updates will be highlighted for you to check what exactly has been changed.

Chat

You can use this tool to coordinate the co-editing process on-the-fly, for example, to arrange with your collaborators about who is doing what, which paragraph you are going to edit now etc.

The chat messages are stored during one session only. To discuss the document content it is better to use comments which are stored until you decide to delete them.

To access the chat and leave a message for other users,

  1. click the Chat icon icon at the left sidebar,
  2. enter your text into the corresponding field below,
  3. press the Send button.

All the messages left by users will be displayed on the panel on the left. If there are new messages you haven't read yet, the chat icon will look like this - Chat icon.

To close the panel with chat messages, click the Chat icon icon once again.

Comments

To leave a comment:

  1. select an object where you think there is an error or problem,
  2. switch to the Insert tab of the top toolbar and click the Comment icon Comment button, or
    use the Comments icon icon at the left sidebar to open the Comments panel and click the Add Comment to Document link, or
    right-click the selected object and select the Add Сomment option from the menu,
  3. enter the needed text,
  4. click the Add Comment/Add button.

The comment will be seen on the panel on the left. The object you commented will be marked with the Commented object icon icon. To view the comment, just click on this icon.

Any other user can answer to the added comment asking questions or reporting on the work he/she has done. For this purpose, click the Add Reply link situated under the comment.

You can manage the comments you added in the following way:

New comments added by other users will become visible only after you click the Save icon icon in the left upper corner of the top toolbar.

To close the panel with comments, click the Comments icon icon at the left sidebar once again.

Personal Profile

Personal Profile

Setting your preferences

As a member of Folderz, you can manage your personal settings.

To access your personal settings:

  1. Click on your profile picture in the top, right corner of Folderz.

    The Personal Settings Menu opens.

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    Personal Settings Menu

  2. Choose Settings from the drop down menu.

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The options listed in the Personal Settings Page depend on the applications that are enabled by the administrator. Some of the features you will see include the following:

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Manage connected browsers and devices

The personal settings page allows you to have an overview on the connected browsers and devices.

Managing connected browsers

In the list of connected browsers you see which browsers connected to your account recently:

List of browser sessions.

You can use the trash icon to disconnect any of the browsers in the list.

Managing devices

In the list of connected devices you see all the devices and clients you generated a device password for and their last activity:

List of connected devices.

You can use the trash icon to disconnect any of the devices in the list.

At the bottom of the list you find a button to create a new device-specific password. You can choose a name to identify the token later. The generated password is used for configuring the new client. Ideally, generate individual tokens for every device you connect to your account, so you can disconnect those individually if necessary.

Adding a new device.

Note

You have only access to the device password when creating it, Folderz will not save the plain password, hence it's recommended to enter the password on the new client immediately.