New Feature: Full-Text Search for Box Business Customers
It’s hard not to notice how much Box has changed in just the last few months. We launched a totally new interface, along with Profiles, Discussions, Bookmarks and Web Documents - and it’s only March! While these features were designed to make Box a better tool for business collaboration, the latest feature is aimed at something more basic, but equally important to the Box experience - quickly finding the files you need from hundreds or even thousands of files in your Box account. To do that, we are testing full-text search capabilities with a select group of Box Business customers, which will be rolled out to all of our multi-seat business customers over the next few weeks.
Full-text search is far more powerful because it displays search results based on the actual text content within a file. Think about it - if you’re looking for a file and you don’t know what it was named, but you remember it contained the phrase “messaging for the Apollo campaign” somewhere in the document, you can find the file without guessing haplessly about what you might have named the file. Those days are over. Box searches through the text content of files in the most popular formats:
- Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- PDFs
- TXT and CSV files
- Box Web Documents
One of our initial test customers is ICD Security Solutions, a security systems integrator based in Asia. They have hundreds of thousands of documents on Box, making them a perfect candidate to really test the performance of full-text search.
In addition, the new search capabilities can read through file descriptions added by users. No matter what you need to find or how many documents you have on Box, full-text search has you covered. And it’s ready to use now - no software, no hardware, and no hassle.
Now you can spend more time using your files instead of searching for them. We look forward to your feedback.
Post by Sean Lindo, Community Manager
How do you plan to deal with issues like user authentication? Right now, Sharepoint can authenticate against an AD server so I don’t have to create user accounts. If I signed up for Box right now and used your “intranet” offering, would I have to recreate user accounts all over again?
March 24th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
[...] enhanced collaboration tools and a web-based word processor; today, they add another new feature: full-text search! Now, Box.net Business customers can search the full text of PDF, TXT, CSV, Microsoft Word, [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
[...] enhanced collaboration tools and a web-based word processor; today, they add another new feature: full-text search! Now, Box.net Business customers can search the full text of PDF, TXT, CSV, Microsoft Word, [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
[...] enhanced collaboration tools and a web-based word processor; today, they add another new feature: full-text search! Now, Box.net Business customers can search the full text of PDF, TXT, CSV, Microsoft Word, [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
[...] enhanced collaboration tools and a web-based word processor; today, they add another new feature: full-text search! Now, Box.net Business customers can search the full text of PDF, TXT, CSV, Microsoft Word, [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
This is a great and importante feature. Do you intend to make the full text search available in the individual plan? I really hope so! Keep up the excelente work.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for the question, Jan. Unfortunately we do not offer the ability to transfer all Sharepoint content and user credentials. However, we do offer the ability to create and upload a mass set of users through our CSV upload function. This feature can be found within our Business Admin Console.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
This might make it a pain for existing Sharepoint shops, but if you’re starting from scratch, this looks a perfectly viable solution.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
[...] Filed under: Office, Web services, web 2.0 Content storage and collaboration solution, Box.net, has really been on a tear with new and enhanced features. In the last two months, the service has launched enhanced collaboration tools and a web-based word processor; today, they add another new feature: full-text search! [...]
March 24th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
[...] información: Box.net Blog Tags: Almacenamiento, Box.net, herramientas, online Otras entradas que te pueden [...]
March 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am
[...] Check out our main Box.net page or check out their blog. [...]
March 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
[...] Más información: Box.net Blog [...]
March 25th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
[...] we introduced full-text search earlier this year, we made a huge leap in making Box’s search feature deliver even more [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 11:49 am