Enabling Watermarks On Previews

Administrators can add watermarks to all previews generated in FileCloud.

Password protected PDF previews are not showing watermarks. This is an issue with the third-party application used for previewing PDFs, and will be resolved when an update of the application becomes available.


Example of a watermark on a document preview in the Admin and User Portals.

Watermark on document preview



To display watermarks for previews:

  1. Open a browser and log in to the Admin Portal.
  2. From the left navigation pane, click Settings.
  3. On the Manage Settings screen, select the Misc. tab
  4. Select the Preview sub-tab.
  5. Next to Anonymous Access Watermark, type in the text, including any of the parameters listed below, that you want embedded on previews by anonymous users.
  6. Next to Authorized Access Watermark, type in the text, including any of the parameters listed below, that you want embedded on previews by authorized users.
    Available parameters:
    ^USERNAME^ - The user who is viewing this file.
    ^SHARE_OWNER^ - The user who shared this file.
    ^FILE_OWNER^ - The file owner.
    ^OWNER^ - If this is a shared file, the user who shared this file. If this is not a shared file, the file owner.

    ^DATETIME^ - Date and time of preview.
    ^GEOIP_LOCATION^ - Geographic location of IP performing preview.
     
    ^LICENSED_COMPANY^ - The company listed on the current license.






    Now whenever a user previews a document, they will see the watermark for anonymous or authorized access embedded in the preview.
    Preview doc showing watermark