New Poll: "Download on Demand" Feature

[Alexander.Onishko]

A suggestion from our user has arrived to add the following new feature:

To add an option like "Download on Demand" in Collanos Settings such that when this option is selected only file names and not the files will be downloaded within a workplace.

Then to download the file the user shall manually select it for download (for example, right-click on the file and select "download" from context menu).

If the option "Download on Demand" is not selected, the process will be as it is now.

So, we invite you to vote in this new poll.

If you have some additional comments or suggestions on this potential new feature, please feel free to comment in this topic.

[Fantom]

Good idea, it will allow to control Internet traffic and choose which file I want to load first. I will be waiting for this feature with impatience, thanks guys

[looplab]

shuld add a progress bar for the dload, and track the downloads of the file (who sent it, who dloaded it and when)
so i think maybe a different interface for the sender and the receiver? and a general report for each file transfered by all the members of the group?

dunno if it's possible, i talk about my case where we are only 4 ppl max right now.

[mhe]

good idea

but then you should receive a empty object in the space that you can select or choose the downlload demand

and a special view for the object download traffic

regards

[glow-in-the-dark]

Just a quick usability remark: not all users use Collanos in the same way.  As some may get confused why the "internet is not working" I would appreciate such option to be optional on the User Interface (i.e. make it accessible or not).

[mhe]

Of course should be visualized in the GUI  that the object is not present .. only a placeholder

[Dr. Gosha]

it would be great !!! 

We use Collanos in a team of about 10 people and we work much with mp3s and pictures - it takes hours until you got the files you want because you download hundreds of (big) files you don't need. This is the only bigger problem we experience.

If I dream on, I would wish a "preview"-functionality. Also as an option in the preferences ("turn previews on/off"). So you can see a "Miniature view" of a picture / first 10 seconds of a mp3 / first 10 seconds of a video before downloading it. Even better - if you could establish something like a youtube-stream for audio and video-files so you can jump to the middle of the file and hear / see the ten seconds you need to decide (and f.e. not the long and unspecific beginning).

Back to the basic "download on demand"-function this topic is about: collanos is greatly usable in thousands of different ways - you can work on little files together or share collections of bigger files the team may need - we do a mix of both. That's why it would be perfect if you can specify certain folders as "synchronize always" and others as "download on demand". Then you will be able to mark big-collection-folders where you may need only a few files you select manually, as "download on demand", and keep all the others synchronizing in the way it's done now.

(Therefore again it would be great to have an option in the general preferences like [set "download on demand" as default for all folders] or [set "synchronize always" as default for all folders]. So everyone could use it in his way.)

regards

Gosha

[renmca]

Therefore again it would be great to have an option in the general preferences like [set "download on demand" as default for all folders] or [set "synchronize always" as default for all folders]. So everyone could use it in his way.

That's a good idea, Gosha. Also it would be nice if use can set a 'threshold'  in general preferences to allow the files that less than certain amount in size (say 1MB for example) to auto-sync, then mark those big one for 'Download on Demand' 

[tjreo]

I completely understand the desire for this feature but it is not one that I need.