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  • Audience: Affiliate, Faculty, Non-UCSF, Staff, Student
  • Service Category: Business Applications
  • Service:
    Box: Cloud Storage

Overview

One of the features of Box is the user's ability to add comments or tasks to a file.

Adding comments

To add a comment to a file:

  1. Preview the file by left-clicking it.
  2. An Enter Comment text area will be located on the right.
  3. Enter something in there and click Post.

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Adding tasks

To assign a task to a collaborator:

  1. Preview the file by left-clicking it.
  2. Click the text bubble icon to the right of the Enter Comment text area and select Task.


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     3. In the Assignees text field, type the name of the person who will be assigned the task.

     4. Fill out the other areas with the details of the task.

     5. Click Assign to save the task.

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Box: Cloud Storage
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