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File Sharing

Flock Suite Support
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Flock allows you to share files with team members in direct messages and channels. Presentations, documents, spreadsheets and even code snippets - you can share it all with ease.

Click on the Attachment Picker button in the Message Editor, and click on Attach.

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Desktop
  • Click on the Attachment a file button in the Message Editor, and click on Attach.
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  • Select a file from your computer and share.
  • You can also drag and drop files into the Chat Message area, and share as many as 10 files in one go.
Android
  • Open the chat/channel where you wish to send the file and click the attachment icon on the bottom left corner. 
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  • You can choose from the options to attach a photo, take a photo or attach a file as shown below.
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Share Images with Caption 

  • You can easily share the images containing a caption to a number of different channels and 1v1 conversations without needing to enter the same caption multiple times.

  • Long press on the image which contains the caption and tap on "Share"
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  • Chose " Flock "  to share

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  • Share it across the the channels or the conversations that you wish to! Shared.png

Your images containg the captions shall be shared!

 
iOS
  • Click on the Attachment Picker button next to the Message Editor.
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  • Click on Choose existing.
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Storage limits

Sharing files from the cloud

You can also share files hosted on a cloud storage service such as Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive, and Dropbox. To do so, you need to install the corresponding app from the Flock appstore.

To share a file from Google Drive:

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Desktop
  • You can also share files from cloud storage services such as Google Drive.
  • Click on the Attachment Picker button in the Message Editor, and click on Google Drive.
  • In the Google Drive app, search/select a recently shared file, or go to My Drive to select another file.
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Android
  • Open the channel where you want to send the file and press the attachment icon at bottom left.
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  • Select Google Drive.
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  • You can search/select a recently shared file, or go to My Drive to select another file.
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iOS
  • Click on the Attachment Picker button next to the Message Editor.
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  • Click on Google Drive.
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  • You can search/select a recently shared file, or go to My Drive to select another file.

You can also share files by launching these cloud storage apps from Flock's apps sidebar.

 

Additional Notes

When you share a file from cloud storage, all members of the chat - direct message or channel - are given read-only access to it. You can change this in the app settings.

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