Our team all works in Syncplicity. To tell someone about a file that I have updated, we can right click a file in our Syncplicity folder and send the link. Works fine, except that's not my scenario.
Once a teammate is done editing a file, he sends me a message to review it. He could send the link per above, but when I click on that I get the option to download. I already have the file sync'd on my PC, so I want to open that copy of the file so I can make changes in a collaborative way on the same file, and have my changes sync'd back to my teammate's drive.
Is there a way to instead easily send the path to the file in the Syncplicity folder instead of the web link?
For example:
I want to send: "General\Graphics\one.png" from the "General" shared parent folder.
I could send the web link, but that doesn't really help me if I want to edit the PNG directly.
IDEALLY, when someone receives that link they could click it, the file sync'd to the local drive opens in their default app for that file type, they do their edits, save, and that sync's back to the teammate's machine. Syncplicity could resolve the path my teammate provided to the path on my local drive.
If the file is in a shared folder, there's no need to send anything but a note saying you edited the file. The updates are automatically downloaded to everyone who is sharing the folder.
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Hi Bill. Thanks for the answer. I understand that, but that doesn't solve my problem. We have thousands of files in many different folders. I want to point someone to a specific file in the hierarchy. Yes, their updates will be synchronized, but I want to tell them exactly where to look without manually typing in a full path into an email or chat window. I'm looking for a shortcut since this is a common operation.
Links to the files in the folders are not available in Syncplicity. Users can turn on or off notifications about changed files, and view what has been updated in their Syncplicity Newsfeed, but no linking is provided in the product.