In Egnyte, users can get visibility of activities within a specific folder in the Activity Pane when they navigate to that folder in WebUI
The feature allows end-users to easily track and monitor any changes within a folder. They don't have to search through individual files to stay informed about recent updates, keeping everyone aligned on the latest activities in a specific folder.
View activities In A folder
- Navigate to the specific folder.
- Click on the Activities icon. The recent activities in the folders are displayed.
- The user can navigate to the specific file or sub-folder from the activity listed.
Disabling the activity pane
Organizations may need to restrict visibility into the audit trail within specific folders for certain user types to meet their security policies.
Egnyte allows administrators to control Activity Pane visibility for Power Users and Standard Users:
- By default, the Activity Pane is visible to both Power Users and Standard Users.
- Administrators always have access to the Activity Pane.
The ability to manage folder activity stream visibility is available for customers on selected plans – All Platform Plans (except for Team and Business), Life Sciences, GxP and Document Room Plans.
Power Users
- Login to the webUI as an Admin.
- Navigate to Settings -> Configuration -> User Types & Roles
- From within the Power Users section, toggle the switch against can view Activity in Folders to Disabled.
- Click on the Save changes button.
Standard Users
- Navigate to Settings -> Configuration -> User Types & Roles.
- From within the Standard Users section, toggle the switch against can view Activity in Folders to Disabled.
- Click on the Save changes button.
- The activity feed records and displays activities from last 30 days.
- 10 most recent events that occurred for a particular folder are displayed in the activity pane.
- The activity feed only displays any of the updates made in the folder. For instance, uploads, create, delete, rename are included whereas downloads and previews are not covered.