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Sharing folder in Rise
Hi,
Is it possible for Rise users to share folders? We have a mid-sized team of developers and we would like to store final files in a shared folder structure (for maintenance and translation purposes). Is this possible?
I know you can add collaborators, but can you share folders with a specific group of people like you would share a google folder?
- BobBudiongan-deCommunity Member
I agree with the other requests. While we can share the file, and even provide admin rights to the file, the inability to have shared folder structures for developers is functionality that should be core the idea of collaboration for Teams.
Having a Rise folder structure for Published, Archive, WIP on my end, and the inability to share that with the team is not an ideal situation.
7 months and counting...
- BCHarperCommunity Member
Tagging into this thread to see updates. This is a feature we desperately need.
We have team members in a couple areas of the country collaborating on projects. We need to be able to have members from two different networks/locations able to access the same Storyline file at different times. RIght now, it looks like Google Drive is our only option. The issue is that we will have to download the file any time someone is working on it and the upload the updates. It's very easy to just hit save and forget that it's not saved to a cloud. It would be great to have a teams cloud to save to and access the files directly no matter where you are located.
Hi Brandon!
It sounds like you're looking for collaboration features in Storyline 360. Teams Slides allows you to create a library of shared slides that everyone can access right from Storyline 360. You can upload branded project templates, share slides that need to be in every course, and give teammates access to reusable slide content.
While this feature doesn't allow multiple authors to work on a single course file at one time, hopefully it will make collaboration a little easier for your team.
- BCHarperCommunity Member
Thanks Alyssa! That is helpful and it will achieve some of our goals. It sounds more like Team Slides will be used by us more as like a Master Template for projects within the normal corporate scope.
What we thinking is to be able to save a stored project in a location that is created by an East Coast Team. Later the West Coast team may access this project and continue to work on the project. Not that we would want access to work at the same time on the same file, but that we would want to have a single course file that is accessible from different users within a team.
That makes sense, Brandon! As long as authors aren't working on the file at the exact same time, we recommend using this collaborative workflow.
- JeremyWilliamsCommunity Member
Can I add another upvote for shared Rise 360 folder structures between collaborators? We have a small team of collaborators, but we publish a number of similar but differently-branded courses with the same title and the list quickly becomes unwieldy. We'd love someone to have an overall admin role who can create folders and keep the contents consistent for all collaborators.
Thanks.
- DonnaWestwoodCommunity Member
Another MASSIVE vote for better folder sharing or at least a shared folder structure across a team - 33 courses into 8 languages is going to lead to a huge disorganised collaboration nightmare at this rate... :(
- PatCumminsCommunity Member
Adding my team's voice for this feature (sharable file structures). Collaborating with a team to create training for multiple products gets a bit cumbersome without the ability to organize this as a team. With the direction we're moving, this is going to exponentially get worse quickly.
Thanks for adding your voice to this request, folks!
- TimOberlin-d83eCommunity Member
Adding my team's vote to this feature. We need scalable sharing with other users.
We have ~35 rise licenses and use Rise to create daily lessons for online students. Each semester has about 75-100 lessons and we have 196 semesters of content. That comes out to 14,700-19,600 lessons spread out over 35 accounts (~560 Rise courses per account).
The trick is that our SMEs collaborate on courses and check each other's work. We also have editors and graphic designers to edit content. Sharing individual lessons, even through the Share functionality, is a huge time sink for us. Between sorting, tracking, and sharing, it takes hours to share Rise content with the 2-5 users that edit the content before it goes live.
Thanks so much for sharing how this has been a pain point for your team, Tim. We're looking at ways we can make team administration easier, and we'll keep you posted on new developments.