Folder Permissions
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Are there plans to alter the "waterfall" permissions structure to make it... well, sane?
This is not how businesses work. The inability to change subfolder permissions without effecting the parent is unforgivable. It makes permissions a complete nightmare.
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Hi there,
Welcome to Box Community!
As of this message, we don't have a way to break the waterfall permissions in the Box folders. If you are looking for a way to alter or change your collaborators permissions in sub-folder level.
You can, however, give a collaborator a higher access level at a subfolder. To do this, first invite the collaborator to the subfolder, then invite the collaborator to the parent folder. For example, you could invite John to the Marketing folder as an Co-Owner, then invite him to the Box Reports folder as a Viewer.
You may use the article Understanding Folder Permissions as your reference.
Thanks for posting!
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I understand what I can do but does Box understand how much trouble this permissions structure creates for businesses?
What about, for instance, if I have a parent folder that I want an entire group to have access to but there is a subfolder 2 layers down that I don't want that group to have access to?
I only have two options.
I would either have to go two levels down and assign permisions to that group on EVERY SINGLE FOLDER INDIVIDUALLY across that entire layer, or find a place to move that folder where only the exact people I want to have permissions to it already have permissions, but where NO ONE ELSE has permissions, or I have the same problem.
What about a typical folder structure for projects that might be in the following format:
Location
Project
Logistics
HR
Plans and Specs
Project 2
Logistics
HR
Plans and Specs
Project 3, etc, etc
Now imagine that I have a group that should have access to ALL those folders except Logistics.... and another group that should have all but Plans and Specs?
In a sane permission structure, (One, I would point out, that is used in Windows, Mac and almost all of Boxes competitors) I would assign the parent folder and then unassign just that one single folder from each group.
In the Box "waterfall" model, I have to go in to each of those folders and individually assign EVERY SINGLE FOLDER for EVERY SINGLE GROUP.
It's bonkers.
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Glad to see someone as passionate about this as I am. I just discovered this today. It's absolutely mind-blowing that there isn't yet an ability to manage permissions per subfolder. Deviating from a logical and traditional organization of folders, having to make additional parent folders is insane.
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