Feature request: Add a download button to the context menu for attachments.

[mvtglobally]

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Problem:

It’s hard to locate the download button, and it’s a two step process (open attachment -> click download).

Solution:

Add a download attachment button to the context menu.

Action Performed:

1. Open any chat
2. Send few attachments
3. Try to download attachment sent

Expected Result:

User should see download icon in chat

Actual Result:

User has to click on the file to open it before locating download button

Workaround:

unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web
• iOS
• Android
• Desktop App
• Mobile Web

Version Number: 1.1.54-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @joaniew
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1649278748377769

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sophiepintoraetz (AutoAssignerTriage), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4749 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @techievivek (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[techievivek]

Seems like a good feature to add to New Expensify. We would also need help from the Design team to get the look right.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @megankelso (Design), see these Stack Overflow questions for more details.

[megankelso]

Perhaps we just add the download button to our current hover design for attachments?

[techievivek]

wouldn't it be convenient if we have just over the image, just like how we have in Slack?

[techievivek]

@megankelso But I think your suggestion wilL provide a consistent UI and also be easy to implement. So let's take a call on one of these and I will move forward with implementing it.

[megankelso]

cc @Expensify/design for thoughts but I think this would be the correct way to add this feature into our existing UI

[shawnborton]

Interesting, I can see both sides of this.

Slack does this where you just hover over an image:

And I think that makes sense because with Slack, you could have a message that has multiple images attached to it.

For Expensify though, I believe we currently only show one image per message in all cases. So I actually think what Megan has mocked up makes sense for the v1 of this feature (it seems like the most consistent and easiest thing to implement) until we start to support multiple images per message in the future.

[megankelso]

good point, this wouldn't work for multiple images in a message

[techievivek]

Ok cool thanks for all the inputs, I will start working on it now. 🙌

[megankelso]

not overdue! any updates here?

[JmillsExpensify]

Interesting yeah I agree that the comment action menu feels like the right place for now.

That said, I also have one request: If would be great to pull these kinds of platform decisions out of Github and into Slack. I'd highly recommend posting in #expensify-open-source and then reposting in #product so we get ample feedback from both the community as well as Expensify employees.

[techievivek]

Sure @JmillsExpensify will keep that in mind going forward. And will push a PR today itself.