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A few years have passed since this request and as a business this would save us allot of time and irritation. As a company we share daily hundreds of links to files via Microsoft Teams with each other.
Now the situation is as follow:
1 link is shared
2 team member clicks on the link
3 browser opens the link to the file
4 user clicks on 'open in dropbox' button
Ideal situation would be that admins and users have a File open preference, where links to files can directly open in the native apps:
1 link is shared
2 team member clicks on it and the file is synced and opened in the native app
Microsoft Teams has a great solution to this problem for Office-applications, called File open preference, see screenshot. It would be great if Dropbox could also build this feature in it's Dropbox-apps.
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- Jay2 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Status changed:NewtoGathering SupportIf you like this idea, please share how this would help you, and vote to show your support.Our top-voted ideas are shared with our product teams to investigate in our regular reviews. - jpegweber2 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Commenting to boost this idea, as it's a good one.
- crustiek12 months agoNew member | Level 2
I'm a power user of dropbox and this is my #1 problem with dropbox!
My team shares dropbox links in slack, email and from airtable - and it's so annoying that they open in a web browser. Instead would love to set Dropbox to open these links in a local finder window.
- MadeleineH12 months agoNew member | Level 2
OMG yes! PLEASE DO THIS. It would reduce so much frustration and save a lot of time.
- DanijelD7 months agoHelpful | Level 6
Dropbox has released a new Microsoft Teams integration. This has te ability to open files local in your Mac/Windows device, which is great! Only bug it isn't remembering the login credentials in Teams, so every other day users need to login again to have this work.
- Jay6 months ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoClosedThis idea has been closed due to inactivity.
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