Navigating inside the Content Library
CloudFiles offers a lot of screens to manage everything you do in the app. There are many UX & UI features offered to move around the various screens easily and complete your tasks. In this article we will discuss the various sections in the CloudFiles app. We will also discuss some of the functionality that makes it easy to move around.
Learn about navigating inside the CloudFiles content library. There are three sections inside the content library:
- Analytics - To see overall analytics and latest views
- Library - To see the Content library with files, folders and links
- Datarooms - To see the datarooms library
This section has all the analytics related to the files sorted on a file last viewed time basis.
By default it shows all the types of links possible in CloudFiles: files, folders, & datarooms. You can select one of those, from the drop down at the top and get a focused view.
Quick access points in the analytics section
- Clicking on the link name will take you to the settings page of the link.
- Clicking on the file name below the link will show you all the links made for the particular file.
- The ellipsis button on the right contains preview (the file) & go to link options.
This section contains all the files and folders in the content library. Once you click on the library tab on the top, you will see all the options for the Cloud based drives inside CloudFiles. By default it will open the CloudFiles storages
If you're unable to find the other cloud based drives, click on the gear icon (⚙️) in front of libraries and ensure that visibility of your drive is marked as visible.
You will need to connect the drive to be able to see the files contained inside.
This section contains all the datarooms associated with your CloudFiles account. The ellipsis button on the right contains edit/duplicate/preview & delete options for a dataroom. Clicking on any dataroom will take you to the settings page of the dataroom.
CloudFiles' content library is powered by a powerful search that can be used to quickly and easily locate folders or data rooms, documents as well as links in your online file storage. The search is intelligent enough to show and act upon these different results. The unification method used behind this makes it even easier to navigate around the content library.
In order to search in the library, follow the simple steps below -
- Access the content library in your CloudFiles account, which can be found at the top.
- Next click on the search box and start typing your requisite file name.
Once your result is shown is the list, you can click on the specific list item to go to it. The different items are differentiated using the tile icons.
- If you click on a folder result, you will be redirected to the folder.
- If you click on the file result, the links screen for the file will open.
- Clicking on a link result opens the link settings.
- Clicking on a data room will open the relevant data room in CloudFiles.
When you delete a file, folder, dataroom, or link, they won't appear in the search results anymore. To understand more about File Management in CloudFiles, check out the details and learn how it works. However, links whose status has been made offline will be seen in the search results.
To sort your files and folders in ascending or descending order in the CloudFiles Content Library, Just click on the “Name” or the “Created on” options at the top of the content library.
