You can personalize how files and folders are displayed in your Kontainer.

Depending on your use case, you might be interested in a more technical or compact file view.

Moreover, you can choose how the files in your folder should be sorted.

Define default settings for the display and sorting of your files and folders.

Want to skip ahead?

1. Getting started
2. Folder Sort Order, Left Menu
3. Folder & File Sort Order, Main View
4. Default File Display
5. Default Folder Style

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Getting started

Go to Settings > Configuration and find the different view and sorting settings.

Folder Sort Order, Left Menu

Choose whether you want your folder menu on the left to be sorted alphabetically or if you prefer custom sorting.

The alphabetical sorting is naturally strictly sorted after the name. With custom sorting, you can drag and drop each folder in place as you please.

Folder & File Sort Order, Main View

In the view and sorting settings, you can choose a default for how the files should be sorted.

• Name
• Size Created Date
• Upload date
• Custom

This depends on your personal preference and use case.

It’s worth mentioning that you can freely drag and drop your assets into place when selecting Custom Sorting.

Moving entire folders around will also impact the order in which they are displayed in the folder menu on the left-hand side.

Despite setting a standard sorting, you can always use a different sorting method for individual folders.

You’ll find a drop-down menu in the top right corner displaying the different sorting methods, which you can apply individually for only the folder at hand.

Default File Display

Select a default view of files within a folder.

Choose between:

• Box
• Grid
• List view.

The Box View will display all files in equally big boxes.

The Grid View is more compact and displays files in the original dimensions.

The List View shows files including some details very compactly below each other.

Be aware that the hover function that quickly displays the files’ tagged data does not work for the List view. Read more about the hover function here.

Even though you have settled for a default view and sort folders, you can, of course, change these settings for individual folders afterward.

In the top right corner of your folder view, you will find three icons indicating the three different viewing styles. Even though you have set a default, you can choose a view for a specific folder at hand.

Default folder style

To make your Kontainer appear even more as a part of your brand identity and corporate look, you can style your folder tiles in different ways.

Go to Settings > Appearance and change to the tab Folders.

Here, you have many options to customize your default folder view.

You can set a default for:

• Folder, text and icon colors
• Default folder image
• Folder color overlay
• Folder and text size
• Tile corner styles

You can read more about folder styling here.

Once again, you can create default settings for new folders – which you, however, still can change individually for each folder tile afterward.

 

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That was a bit about the default settings of folder and file display and sorting.

Let us know how you are getting on 🙂