Activity notifications

Since version 301013, Quik File Share provides a way for the users to quickly see changes made by other users.

On the right side of the folders menu, there is a new option that opens a drop-down menu showing a log with the latest actions performed by other users anywhere inside your home folder.

The icon of the option is black and white when there are no notifications and blue when there are. There is also an overlay that shows the number of new actions.

Unless the real-time notifications are enabled, as described below, the notifications will be updated every time the user accesses a new folder or clicks the "Refresh" button to reload the list of files.

To see what actions have been performed by other Web File Share users inside your home folder, access the “Folder Activity” tab available on the “Details and activity” panel on the right side of the user interface. To see the tab, access the folder without selecting any items inside.

Real-time notifications with Pusher.com

The notifications can be made real-time, by enabling Pusher.com integration:

Signup for a free Pusher API account at http://pusher.com/pricing
Access the Web File Share control panel as superuser and go to “System configuration” > “Misc options” section.
Enable the main checkbox and configure the App ID, Key and Secret that you get from your Pusher.com account.

The users will be notified in real-time about files that have been uploaded, files that have been downloaded, previewed or commented by other users.

Disabling the sound

Each user can enable/disable the sound notifications from their Account Settings panel. The preference persists between browser sessions, so the user will not have to use the toggle every time he is accessing Web File Share. The sound is enabled by default for all users. To mute it by default, add the following to the configuration file:

$config[['app']][['disable_sound_notification']] = true;

The sound played on notification can be customized by replacing the two files “sounds/new.mp3” and “sounds/new.ogg”.

Limitations

The users will be notified only about actions performed inside their own home folder. They will not be notified about actions performed in folders that are shared to them by other users.
If user doesn't have permission to read file comments in its own home folder, the number of new events will still increase when comments are being added.
This feature doesn't work properly with hidden folders. Users will be notified about actions performed inside hidden folders, so you will wish to disable the feature for the users with hidden folders. (The option for hiding folders will be dropped in future versions)

Disabling the feature

This feature is connected to the “file-based activity logs” feature. Disabling the user's “User can access the files' activity logs” permission, will disable this feature as well.

Article ID: 591
Created On: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:16 AM
Last Updated On: Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:08 PM
Authored by: KB Admin01 [[email protected]]