A context menu is a menu that appears upon a right mouse click and offers a limited set of choices, i.e. actions related to the selected item within the 'Documents' module. Read this tip to find out what operations you can perform using context menus.
If you want to open a context menu, right-click the needed folder or left-click the icon next to it within one of the sections in the Documents module. Folder context menu includes the following options:
You will find this context menu within the 'My documents' and 'Common' (if you are an administrator) sections.
In the 'Common' section (if you are an administrator or the folder owner), the Change owner option is also available that allows to transfer ownership of a folder to another user.
In the 'Shared with me' section, there is one more option apart from the ones listed above - Remove from List that lets you exclude the selected folder from the ones shared with you.
In the 'Trash' section, one more option will be available - the Restore option - which you can select to recover the deleted folder.
If you integrated some other resource (Box.com, Dropbox, OneDrive or Google) with the 'Documents' module, the context menu of this resource folder will include two more options - Change connection settings and Disconnect third party that let you alter the folder name as well as connection settings and remove the resource from the 'Documents' module, respectively.
If you want to open a context menu, right-click the needed file or left-click the icon next to it within one of the sections in the Documents module. File context menu includes the following options:
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Edit - use it to open the selected file for editing it.
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Preview - use it to open the selected file for viewing it.
- Sharing Settings - use it to set access permissions for the selected file.
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Quick external link - use it to provide the default access type to the selected document and copy the link to the clipboard so that you can share the link with people outside the portal. The default access type is specified in Settings / Common / Default access rights in sharing settings / Default access rights for a specific file type. To change the access type, use the Sharing Settings option.
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Link for portal users - use it to copy the link to the selected document to the clipboard so that you can share the link with other portal users. Users you send the link to must have corresponding permissions to be able to view/edit the file.
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Send by email - use it to attach the selected document to an email message and send it using one of your email accounts connected in the Mail module.
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Sign with DocuSign - use it to send the document for electronic signature to your portal users. If you have not yet integrated the DocuSign service with the 'Documents' module, the corresponding instructions on how to connect the service will appear.
- Version history - this menu entry contains the following sub-entries:
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Show version history - use it to open the list of existing versions and revisions.
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Finalize version - use it to group all the existing revisions in one version.
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Block for co-authors - use it to prevent the selected file from editing, renaming, moving to another folder, deletion by other users with the corresponding rights.
To release a lock use the
icon or the
Unblock / Check-in option in the context menu.
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Mark as favorite - use it to add the file to the Favorites section.
To remove an added file from the
Favorites section, click the
icon or use the
Remove from Favorites option in the context menu.
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Download - use it to save the file onto your hard disk drive in its original format.
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Download as - use it to save the file onto your hard disk drive in a selected format.
- Move or Copy - this menu entry contains the following sub-entries:
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Move to - use it to move the file to another section (e.g. to the 'Common' section or to one of the folders of the 'My documents' section).
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Copy - use it to make a copy of the file in any folder.
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Create a copy - use it to make a copy of the file in the folder of an original file.
When moving or copying files to a different folder, if a file with the same name already exists in the destination folder, you will be asked to select if you want to overwrite the existing file adding a new version to it, or keep both the files in the destination folder, or skip moving/copying the file.
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Rename - use it to change the file name.
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Delete - use it to move the file to the 'Trash' section.
You will find this context menu within the 'My documents' and 'Common' (if you are an administrator) section.
If a shared file has been updated by another person who has corresponding access rights, the Mark as Read option is also available that allows to remove the new icon next to the updated file.
In the 'Favorites' section, the Open location option is also available that allows to switch to the folder which contains this file.
In the 'Common' section (if you are an administrator or the file owner), the Change owner option is also available that allows to transfer ownership of a file to another user.
In the 'Shared with me' section, there is one more option apart from the ones listed above - it is the Remove from List option that is used to exclude the selected file from the ones shared with you.
In the 'Trash' section, one more option will be available - the Restore option - which you can select to recover the deleted file.
In the 'My documents' section, the .docxf
Form template context menu includes the same options as a document context menu, excepting Sign with DocuSign. It also includes the following option:
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Save as oform - use it to save the selected
.docxf
file as an .oform
fillable form.
In the 'My documents' section, the .oform
fillable form context menu includes the same options as a document context menu, excepting Edit and Sign with DocuSign. It also includes the following option:
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Fill in the form - use it to open the
.oform
fillable form for filling in its fields.
In the 'Shared with me' section, the available options for the .oform
fillable form differ depending on the user's permissions.
- A user who has Form Filling permissions can fill in the form, view the form, get a link for portal users, send the form by email, view the version history, add the form to Favorites, download or copy the form, remove the form from the list.
- A user who has Full Access permissions can fill in the form, view the form, get an external link, get a link for portal users, send the form by email, view the version history, block the form for co-authors, mark the form as read, add the form to Favorites, download or copy the form, rename the file, remove the form from the list.