Using external file storage

Jive can integrate with a number of external storage solutions on a licensing basis to store and organize big files and then synchronize them in a Jive group or space.

By default, Jive uses an external binary storage repository or its own database to store uploaded files. But Jive has the capability to connect to different storage providers, so you can store and organize large files in your storage provider and then socialize them in a Jive place.

When you create a group, you may have the option to connect it to a different storage provider than the default configured when your community was set up. Using external file storage means that when a user uploads a document, it's stored with a third-party file storage service instead of directly in Jive. Files can then be automatically synchronized in both directions, which means you can add or update them from either side. If the storage provider has comment functionality, comments are also synchronized with comments in the group.