You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Add an option for shared link to sort files not only in alphabetical order but also by last modified
It's very hard to share files with people when they can only see files sorted by alphabetical order. It would be great if people can change the way files are sorted.
We have a global community that shares a new video file weekly on Monday. The videos are recorded by differenty people each week but the content follows a preset order. There are dozen's of classes around the globe that access our shared folder to download the weekly video in order to share it as part of a zoom meeting with their local community. Do to different schedules local communities watch the videos in the same order but start the curriculum on different dates. As it stands the files are named with the lecturer's first-last name + content (inconsistantly). It has become significantly more difficult to not have the ability to sort by the Date Modified column. There are ~6 lecturers, so sorting by first name is not helpful after six months of weekly files. The ability for a user to sort a column in a shared folder should be standard operating procedure. The the ability to set the default sort order by column is a feature the folder owner should have. Help us to "work smarter with Dropbox"!