Inside a Filebox
A Filebox is just like your local filesystem, but with some additional information.
Files
A Filebox is a container for your files. It can be organised hierarchically using folders, in the same way as you have files and folders on your own computer.
When logged into a Filebox using a username and password or token, you can see at a glance the files contained in it.
You can see the size of each file. For each file and folder you can also see when it was uploaded and the number of times it has been downloaded.
Downloading Files
Individual files can be downloaded by simply clicking on the file name in the listing.
If a number of files or folders are to be downloaded, the user can select them and then click the download button. This automatically collects them together into a compressed ZIP file ready for download
Uploading
Most of the partners on John's project already have the Java web plugin installed. When they want to upload files, they click their token to log into the Filebox. They then either drag the files and folders from their local filesystem and drop them into the upload area, or click on the upload area and select the files and folders using a normal file chooser box.
The client doesn't have Java installed on their browser. Instead, they use the simple file upload screen, which allows them to upload one file at a time. For the client in this scenario, this is fine as they only upload one file per day anyway. For other partners like the HTML team who need to upload a lot of files, they can follow the simple instructions to install the Java software and then use the multiple file upload.