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Managing Public Links - Expiration

Managing Public Links - Expiration

Currently, Public Links can be turned ON/OFF. When toggled ON, the Project Admin can select the number of days until the Public Links will expire (see attachment).  The exact wording is:

Public links will expire <NUMBER> days from the date the links were generated.

 

However, this is not the case; this is the MAXIMUM number of days out that can be selected until the Public Link expires, not when the Public Links will actually expire. The default expiration is 2 weeks from the date of generating the Public Link, and the user generating the Public Link has to change the date of expiration to the MAXIMUM <NUMBER> of days out.

 

I have a few ideas that could make this better:

1. The <NUMBER> that is specified in the Project Admin is the default expiration when a Public Link is generated. So if today is Wednesday April 13th, and the <NUMBER> specified in Project Admin is 180, the default expiration date would be October 10th (180 days later).

2. Allow Project Admins/Account Admins to Export a list of all active Public Links, along with the following fields (Project, Folder, FolderURN, Public Link, Date Generated, UserID (of who generated it), Expiration Date).

3. Provide a Forge endpoint that can export #2, and also to create/regenerate Public Links.

3 Comments
anders.oksavik
Community Visitor

Absolutely agree. We sometimes use this feature to create bids to send out if there are many big attatchements. The expired link becomes a problem if there later is a conflict about the contents of the link, which has by then become almost impossible for us to prove. 

debra.kralkaSWKZF
Enthusiast

Well explained!

mjimenez.diaz
Community Visitor

Absolutely agree. In my case we need to be able to choose the expiration, many times higher to 365 days.

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