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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?
- DanJeffriesCommunity Member
It is baffling that - three years on - this is still being requested.
Articulate, we love Rise but your focus is at times questionable. Thousands of templates no one asked for, a release this week that caused serious issues and headaches for multiple users (only turned round in 24 hours because some of us shouted VERY loudly and threatened to cancel).
We appreciate the design improvements, but when you've got 20+ users and 7,000 lessons like we have (and I'm sure many others have this and more!), why can you not see that Admin tools that improve workflow and sharing would be far more appreciated than a new heading design? Unless of course you're willing to add a new member of my team to all 7k lessons.
Decisions like this really do make me question our subscription.
- DebsChurcherCommunity Member
I couldn't agree more :)
- SamSpoilerCommunity Member
Can you please at least name a reason for ignoring this essential feature over years? That would help to decide if it's worth waiting for it or better switch to another platform
- DanJeffriesCommunity Member
I pressed Report by mistake - was trying to select 'Helpful'! Apologies. Can an Admin fix please?
- EwaMwaura-89531Community Member
It's hard to believe it's been 4 years since I wrote this post. Please take the voice of your customers seriously. It's clear a lot of us leaders in the business are lacking this critical functionality.
- FrdrickBergeronCommunity Member
Serioulsy, I'm with everyone on that one- it has been 4 years since we all started requesting that feature. it's not a "good-to-have' feature, its a mandatory one. We just hired someone new in our team, and now I need to go in all our +300 courses indivudually and add that peron to them... it's not viable.
Why it has not been implemented yet? - DanJeffriesCommunity Member
You're still tracking requests?! People have been asking/begging for this for FOUR YEARS!
This is not a small feature request, this is a fundamental issue with sharing of projects within a team, an issue that costs companies time and money in wasted hours.
Please don't be like Microsoft. This issue should be your #1 priority.
- DanielStaten-d9Community Member
It's clear to me that Articulate doesn't take the Enterprise seriously. This product is publishable PowerPoint. The use cases for large corporations are largely ignored in favor of more bells and whistles that we don't use.
- EwaMwaura-89531Community Member
Thanks, I did that yesterday :)
Currently, we are using google drive to store final files (e.g. storyline sources) and have a process built around that. We cannot use that same processes with Rise.
I understand we can add collaborators but the point is that if you have a big team (ours is about 20 developers), adding collaborators to every file is not efficient.
These are typical scenarios:
1. All developers need access to all in progress and final materials in case someone falls ill or is absent. Or simply because another person is tasked with updating the content and not the original creator (and with a big team you can never know who it will be);
2. When you start translating content, the number of files gets even bigger and adding collaborators to specific files gets even harder. E.g. some of our courses are translated into 6 languages and when we update the English content we also need to update translations. We would like to be able to store final Rise files in a central place to which our developers and translation company would have access. This is where they would also add translated Rise files.
Any tips on how to make it more efficient are welcome! Thanks!
I totally get it! Thanks for your feedback and for providing specific examples of use cases, that's super helpful!. I'll make sure to let you know when I have an update here.
- JonathanVereyCommunity Member
Hi Ewa - adding my voice here for an Rise feature update to help with this, and echo your scenarios that we are also experiencing. Submitting a feature request also.
- GillianWhite-2cCommunity Member
Would really love to see this feature as well. We need authors to be able to jump in and out of courses, so to be able to set this permission at the folder level would save those 'Argh' moments when you realize someone has forgotten to add you as a collaborator to a course.
- BCHarperCommunity Member
I've been following this thread for almost 2 years. It's really quite disappointing that a feature that has been requested by users for this long hasn't even made it into a roadmap.
- DianaSavageCommunity Member
Brandon Tanguay
I've been following this thread for almost 2 years. It's really quite disappointing that a feature that has been requested by users for this long hasn't even made it into a roadmap.
It is very disappointing - I feel like they do not care at all about their customers.
- EwaMwaura-89531Community Member
It is very frustrating that so many teams are requesting enhancements to Rise and there is no real response visible on the roadmap. This discussion was open over two years ago! Thanks all for your input and I hope Articulate Staff will treat it as their priority.
- RorySacks-d2e9aCommunity Member
Ewa Mwaura
It is very frustrating that so many teams are requesting enhancements to Rise and there is no real response visible on the roadmap. This discussion was open over two years ago! Thanks all for your input and I hope Articulate Staff will treat it as their priority.
I should hope so. With competition to Rise having automatic collaboration, it is a huge downfall of the current Rise product. Now that authoring is all moving to the web/cloud, there is no reason why all users on a team shouldn't have access to all content for that org. eludcidat, Knowbly, etc. all do this. Even Google Drive and Dropbox offer this function.
With this many people asking for this crucial feature, it's unacceptable that it isn't even on the roadmap!
- BenjaminGroothoCommunity Member
Same here - we desperately need shared folders, or some other way to share files with "full access" other than adding individual team members one by one. It is indeed a nightmare, as already said in this thread. This thread is more than 2 years old - can we expect something to happen here soon, or should we rather look what the competitors offer?