StratOps

Documents

Two documents, and a module that starts turned off.

This is the thinnest page on the site, and that's the point of writing it. Everywhere else, honesty means naming a number. Here it means naming why the number is small and what that decided.

01The count

2

Documents recorded

0

Bytes of file content actually stored

That second number isn't a bug waiting on a fix. It's what the feature currently is.

02What a document is here

The limit, stated plainly

A document can be recorded and linked to a deal, a contact or an initiative. What gets stored is the fact of it — a name, and what it's attached to — not its contents. There's no upload path, nothing gets parsed, and search doesn't reach inside it. A document row in StratOps is closer to a sticky note that says "the contract is in the shared drive" than to the contract itself.

03Why the module defaults off

Modules can be switched on per account. This one starts off.

StratOps has a table for exactly this — which optional pieces are turned on for an account — and documents is one of the pieces that isn't, by default. The reasoning is the same one behind not listing eighty-eight knowledge entries on the previous page, aimed at a different failure mode: a nav link that opens onto two rows and an upload button that doesn't work teaches a brand-new user that the product is empty, before they've had a chance to learn anything true about it. A day-one account already has almost nothing in it. Handing that same account a near-empty documents screen as one of its first clicks makes the emptiness look like the ceiling instead of the start.

So the module stays off until there's a reason to turn it on for a given account, and the honest version of this page is the one that says that plainly instead of dressing up two rows as a feature.

04What this page is, then

A page for the question, not a destination in the header.

Notice this page isn't in the navigation at the top. That's deliberate, for the same reason the module defaults off — this exists for the moment someone asks "can I attach files to a deal," so the honest answer is one link away, not for someone browsing the site to stumble into a page that undersells everything else on it.

05

Ask, and I'll tell you if this has grown.