Connecting Egnyte

Connect Egnyte once and pull drawings straight into Notch — browse your Shared folders exactly as they sit in Egnyte, pick the sheets you want, and mark them up.

Before you start#

You'll need your Egnyte domain — the first part of the address you sign in at. If your team uses acme.egnyte.com, your domain is acme.

Connect your account#

1. Go to Workspace settings → Integrations.
2. Click Connect on Egnyte.
3. Enter your Egnyte domain.
4. Sign in to Egnyte and approve access. You'll come straight back to Notch.

Notch asks for file system access — the one scope Egnyte offers, which covers reading and writing. In practice it browses and downloads what you pick, and publishes your markups back to files you imported. It never renames, moves or deletes anything, and never touches a file you didn't bring into Notch.

Connections are personal. Files come in through your Egnyte account and respect your Egnyte permissions — you can only import what you could already open there. Every member connects their own.

Import drawings#

Click Import in the library and pick Egnyte. You'll start in Shared and browse down the same folder tree you see in Egnyte. Tick the sheets you want and import.

Imported files land in your library like any upload: previews generate, and you can file them into projects, mark them up, measure them, and share them by link.

Send your markups back#

An imported drawing keeps a link to the file it came from, and the cloud icon in the editor header shows it.

• When the drawing changes in Egnyte, the icon says so. Update, and the new revision lands as a version of the same document — your markups and calibration carry forward.
• When you want the set back in Egnyte, publish. Notch saves your marked-up drawing onto the same file as a new version. Egnyte's own version history keeps every earlier one, so nothing is overwritten and there is no second copy to keep straight.

Publishing is always something you click. Importing on its own never changes anything in Egnyte.

Limits#

• PDFs, images, and scans — images and scans convert to PDF automatically.
• Up to 250 MB per file on the way in. Publishing back to Egnyte is capped at 100 MB, which is Egnyte's own single-upload limit.
• Egnyte limits how fast any app may call it, so a large set imports steadily rather than all at once. If you see "the provider is rate limiting us", wait a moment and carry on — nothing is lost.

Disconnecting#

Remove a connection any time from Workspace settings → Integrations. Files you already imported stay in your library — disconnecting only stops future imports through that account.

Egnyte has no way for an app to revoke its own access from the outside, so if you want the grant gone at Egnyte's end too, remove Notch from your Egnyte account settings as well.

If something doesn't work#

• "You don't have access to this folder" — Egnyte permissions are set per folder and don't inherit from the folder above, so a folder you can see listed isn't always one you can open. Ask whoever administers your Egnyte account for access to it; signing in again won't change anything.
• A folder looks empty — Notch only lists drawings it can import (PDFs, plus images and scans it can convert). A folder of spreadsheets shows as empty.
• The wrong domain — disconnect and connect again with the right one. The domain is fixed when the connection is made.