Document collaboration with collaboration context data

摘要

One or more techniques and/or systems provide for an entity to receive collaboration context data regarding activities that have taken place with respect to a document when the entity views a reference to the document comprised within a communication directed to the entity. For example, a hyperlink related to a document may be emailed to an entity when the document is shared with the entity. Subsequently, when the entity views the email comprising the hyperlink, the entity may be provided with contextual information regarding the document (e.g., entities that have viewed the document, edits other entities have made to the document, etc.). In one embodiment, such information may be presented to the entity in the same application (e.g., email client and/or email service) as the email. In this way, the entity may be provided with information that may help the entity assess whether to access a shared document, for example.

主权项

1. A method for document collaboration, comprising:
generating, using at least one processing device, collaboration context data for a document stored in a central database and electronically accessible by a plurality of entities via one or more networks, the collaboration context data including one or more entries associated with at least one of a previous edit or a previous access of the document; providing the collaboration context data for the document via the one or more networks, without concurrently providing the document, upon receiving an indication of an email containing a reference to the document being at least one of viewed or previewed in an email application at a first time by an entity of the plurality of entities; automatically updating the collaboration context data for the document stored in the central database, using the at least one processing device, to create updated collaboration context data that includes information regarding one or more activities associated with the document stored in the central database occurring between the first time and a second time by one or more entities of the plurality of entities; and automatically providing the updated collaboration context data for the document via the one or more networks, without concurrently providing the document, upon receiving another indication of the email containing the reference to the document being at least one of viewed or previewed in the email application at the second time by the entity of the plurality of entities for display concurrently with the reference presented within the email, such that the email comprising the reference, the reference comprised within the email, and the updated collaboration context data are displayable concurrently.