Document Security on LiveBinders

Uploading Documents from Your Desktop

Documents that are uploaded into LiveBinders are public documents that are assigned an obscure URL and presented through a livebinder - i.e. the user can include them in any livebinder, public or private - and whoever has access to the livebinder can see the documents. To provide greater privacy, you can upload files that are already password protected, such as in a Word or PDF document, where a password would be required to open that document within the livebinder tab.

Linking to Documents Within Your Own Intranet

If your documents are already uploaded to your school or company's secure intranet, website or sharepoint account, you can embed those links directly into a livebinder without having to re-upload them. The login window to the network will prompt the user before opening the file or it will not display the document until the user logs into the network. Only those that have access to the intranet or firewall environment will be able to access the files in the livebinder.

Linking to Files from Online Storage Sharing Sites

If you upload files to an outside secure website, such as an online storage service like box.net, google docs, or drop.io, then those links could also be embedded in the livebinder. This is similar to the files within your local intranet. The website hosting the documents will prompt the user for a login and once the viewer is logged into the network, all the appropriate files will open within the binder. For example, to embed a google document you would access the 'share' interface and obtain a 'web url' that is assigned to each document. Then you can embed the url within the livebinder tab. If the user is logged into their google account they can view the file. Otherwise, it will prompt the user to login before displaying the document.