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Status Under Consideration
Categories 12. Desktop Plugins
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 1, 2018

Enable Desktop Plugin for External Users

The Desktop / Office Plugin is a very important and helpful tool for adoption. Some customers want to use it for external users too. 

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  • Guest
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    Apr 23, 2023

    It is a big pain that this feature does only work with "internals".

    "You cannot connect to this server as a visitor." is by the way not the correct wording for a guest / external user!

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2020

    Would be helpful for us too. We would really appreciate this!

  • Guest
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    Aug 27, 2019

    Would be very helpful if external users can also work with the plugin. This feature is often asked by our users.

  • Guest
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    May 14, 2019

    Would save us internally a lot of time and avoid problems, if externals could work with our files directly. These externals often work like internals and invoice us more efforts due to to this very ineffective way of work. Or we have to act as their secretaries.

  • Guest
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    Aug 3, 2018

    I fully agree into this. This is the biggest and most hurting gap between internal users (who love this feature) and their external counter parts. Mostly file sharing is popular with external users and made much more easy in case that external users can use the Windows Explorer Desktop Plugin.