Private & Advanced File Management Options

[Darren_Murphy]

@Roberto_Ranieri

Keep files private, accessible only to the users that uploaded them, or to specific lists of logged-in users.

This is tricky. The link is not easily guessed, and you can prevent users from discovering the URL through the use of Row Owners, but it will still be a public link. There is an outstanding feature request related to this, see below:

Private Storage Option

This is something I’ve mentioned in private exchanges with some of the Glide team, but just wanted to throw it out there as an “official” feature request. By definition, I expect this would be an option only available for Private Apps, and possibly only for enterprise customers. Most of the apps I build are for corporate customers; the company I work for and some of our partners/clients. Often we want to store files and documents and make them available via the app, but some of them can contai…

@Roberto_Ranieri

• Gather metadata about the files, such as their extension, name, and so on.

In general, yes. There are several computed column types available in the Glide Data Editor that will help with this.