Overview
Egnyte offers the capability to set up Multi-Domain Co-Editing on Desktop. Users can add multiple domains at the time of setting up Microsoft Office applications. Once the setup is complete, users can open files from any of the added domains using either the Egnyte Desktop App or the Web UI in co-editing mode. During co-editing, the file automatically saves back to that same domain.
Standard Enablement
Users can set up multi-domain co-editing by importing all associated credentials that are connected in a respective Egnyte Desktop App to their Microsoft Office application. This is accessible when the user tries to connect to Egnyte from Microsoft.
- Choose Import to start the process.
More information about importing credentials can be found here. - Select the primary domain to be displayed in the MS apps from the list of imported domains and click Next
- Click on Allow Access to provide authorization
- Multiple domains will be successfully added. Users can choose to change the primary domain by clicking on Change Primary Domain and selecting the domain, or they can click on Close to close the pop-up.
Manual Enablement
If the end users do not have Desktop App and would like to configure their primary domain, users will still be able to manually enable multi-domain.
For this enablement, admins will need to fill out the provided form by entering their Egnyte domains to enable this feature.
Once whitelisted, users will need to re-authenticate to those domains through the Microsoft Application by signing out and signing back into Egnyte. This only needs to be done once for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or Word. Afterwards, select Add Manually.
After adding the first domain, there will be a confirmation for the successful addition, and users can continue to add other domains.
To re-setup this integration and add more domains in the future, sign out of Egnyte from the Microsoft apps.
Launching Co-Editing Sessions from Different Domains
Now that the Microsoft Application has all the domains linked in the configuration, users can initiate a co-editing session on desktop using those domains from either the Web UI or the Desktop App.
The Primary Domain in Microsoft
The first domain that a user signs in to will be their primary domain. That means these actions in Microsoft listed below are only available for the primary domain. To re-setup the primary domain, log out from Egnyte on the Microsoft app and sign in first with the domain that will be the primary domain. The primary domain can do the following:
- Traverse the Domain in Microsoft Apps and Open
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Access the Recent
- Save new files to in the Cloud
Desktop Applications
In order to launch a co-editing from the Desktop App, users will need to be on the lastest version of the Desktop App.
Limitations
- Only one device can be logged into multi-domain at a time (If users have multiple device setups for co-editing signing into one domain, then it will invalidate the token of the other device)
- Desktop App for Mac ILegacy) is not supported