Manage project, folder, and file team shares

SECURITY  All users

NAVIGATION  Workplace Online > Files > click a project, folder, or file > Click Team Shares

Workplace provides granular permissions for sharing within your team that allow you to control who can access your projects and folders, ensuring you data remains safe and secure.

NOTE  Project, folder, and file sharing is designed to support collaboration with the other members of your team. To share documents with users outside your team, please refer to Managing project, folder, and file public shares.

When a new project is created within Workplace, the creator automatically becomes the owner of the project and, by default, is the only person who can access the project.

Projects must be shared before other users on the team can access the contents of that project.

IMPORTANT  Projects must be shared with a specific Workplace server before they can be synced to that server.

IMPORTANT  Projects must be shared with a file sharing integration before they can be accessed through that integration.

The following levels of permission are available:

 

Online View Only1 Read Only Modify Create & Modify Full Access
View Content
Download, Print, Save, Sync to Workplace Folder  
Email to Project (if enabled2)      
Copy Folder Shares with Folder3        
Change Files    
Add Files      
Delete Files        
Undelete Files4        

1 Items viewed by users with Online View Only access may be watermarked, depending on whether or not the Watermark Preview policy is enabled for their policy profile. For more information, refer to Policy Profiles and Select Policies.

2 For more information about the Email to Project feature, refer to Uploading files to a project or folder via email.

3 You may only copy folder shares along with the contents of a folder if you are the project owner or if you have full access to the project and reshare permissions for both the original project and the project you are copying the folder to.

4 For more information, please refer to Deleting and undeleting.

Share safely

To ensure you only share the files you intend to share, please note:

  • Permissions are granular. This means that, if you like, you can provide access to only certain folders within a project. If you want users to only have access to specific folders, then only share those specific folders with them. They will see the project and the folder structure leading to the shared folder, but will not see any other folders or files in the project structure.

  • Permissions are inherited. Any folders and files within the project or folder you have shared will automatically have the same permissions applied to them.

  • A lower level of permissions cannot be applied than the inherited permission. For instance, if you have given Full Access to a project, you cannot restrict that user to Read-Only or Modify permissions for any of the contents of that project. This also means that access cannot be restricted to a folder or file within a project or folder that has been shared.
  • Permissions can be increased for sub-folders. For instance, if you’ve granted Online View Only at the project level, you can grant Modify access to a sub-folder and Full Access to a sub-folder within that sub-folder.

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