Hi David,
Thanks so much for taking up notification-izing FS. This is something that is really helpful and critical.
One feature that DaveB and I have been chatting about is a feature that Xythos has. This feature was identified by a sysadmin from Vassar College as a killer feature for their "home brewed" course management system.
The functionality is outside the scope of what you are doing now, but notifications is the first step to implementing them. It has the following features:
- Email access to a file or folder - A person can enter an email address with a passcode (either with a password or the passcode embedded in the URL) so that a person who doesn't have general permissions to the page can access that information.
- Limit access to items Each item that is sent to people using the above feature can be limited according to the following criteria
- # of downloads limit the number of times a person can download the file
- # of views limit the number of times the file/folder can be viewed
- time window for access a recipient can only access the file until a certain expiration time set by the individual who sent access to the file/folder
these are the items that i can think of at the moment. there are probably others that we can come up with over time and hack according to the requirements that are developed.
talli
