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Home screen folders
The Home screen is used to view and manage the Folders in your Spark tenant. Folders are used to organize the different converted Excel services in Spark. For a first-time user of Spark, there will not be any Folders displayed on the home screen.
Change how folders are displayed
The home screen's display of the folders can be modified by a number of options in the action bar.
Search by folder name: Begin typing a search term and the list will automatically update
Sort by: Allows different sorting options, including date modified, A-Z, and Z-A.
Categories: Allows filtering of the folders based upon the Category defined when the Folder is created or modified.
Favorite folders: When enabled, the screen shows only folders set by Favorite folder.
Card/List view: The default "Card view" shows folders as large image tiles. "List view" is more compact and displays one folder per line.
In "Card view", additional information about a folder can be seen when hovering over the card. This includes whether or not the services in the folder are active/inactive (see Active services, for more detail).
Add a new folder
See Get started in 5 minutes for an overview of this process.
Click New folder in the action bar.
See Create a folder to see more information about creating a folder.
Upload a previously downloaded folder
The backend for this feature is based upon the ImpEx APIs. An exported ZIP file from the Export API can also be uploaded here.
If a folder had previously been downloaded, click New Folder.
Switch to the Upload Folder tab.
Select the ZIP file to upload.
Other folder actions
Additional actions can be performed on the folder from the three-dot menu.
Favorite folder
When a folder is created by a user, it is automatically marked as a favorite for them. A folder can also be set as a favorite by choosing "Favorite this folder".
Similarly, a folder can be unfavorited by choosing "Unfavorite this folder".
Favorite folders can be filtered on the home screen using the toggle.
Edit folder
Edit the category, cover image, and description of the folder.
Clone folder
Clone folder makes a copy of the folder with a new name. Similar to Download folder, Spark will only retain the latest version of each service.
Download folder
Spark makes it easy to package the services within a folder together to move between environments. The ZIP file can be imported back to Spark as described in Upload a previously downloaded folder. The implementation uses the same backend as the ImpEx APIs.
When downloading a folder, Spark will only retain the latest version of each Spark service.
Delete folder
Before a folder is deleted, Spark will request confirmation for the delete action. When deleting a folder, all services and documents in the folder will be deleted. It is not possible to delete only 1 version of a service.
Folders can only be deleted if the user has permission to do so!
Set permissions
If your tenant is set up as a Private tenant, access to this folder can be managed in this menu. More information can be found in Set permissions on folders.
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