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Stephan Testa

Was there ever a solution to this: 

Change permission to subfolder

 
Helmut Welser

I would like to give a person from the list an extended permission in a subfolder, but it should not apply to all parent folders how do I do that?

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    France
     

    Hi Helmut, 

    Welcome to the Box Community, I'm happy to help!

    You can give a collaborator a higher access level at a subfolder and then a lower permission to that subfolder's Parent folder. You must first invite the collaborator to the subfolder, then invite the collaborator to the parent folder.  For example, you could invite John to the subfolder "Marketing folder" as an Co-Owner, then invite him to the Parent folder as a Viewer. You must invite the user in this order to achieve this goal, otherwise, if you try changing the access level for any subfolder would cause the individual's access level also to change for the parent folder and all its subfolders. The system displays a message stating this information when changing someone's access level in a subfolder instead of in the parent folder. 

    For more details, please take a look at this article: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043697254-Understanding-Folder-Permissions  

    Thanks for reaching out and let us know how else we can help!

    Regards,

     
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    Jack Valley
     

    Is there a feature on the roadmap to change the subfolder permission grants. Its not great that we have to re-invite folks to folders every-time we make a subfolder. It would make more sense if the parent folder permission was passed to all sub-folders but any subfolder could have elevated permissions without a re-invite.... 

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    Helmut Welser
     

    Hello,
    of course it would be great if you could unlink the parent folder and so give any folder new higher permissions. The idea I already had but the box can not once linked to the parent folder can not be solved as far as I know. Should that ever go then gladly times pure write here that would be great if that works. 

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  • Rona

    Hi Stephan, 

    Welcome to Box Community and glad to help! 

    Please contact your helpdesk team to help with your Box inquiry. As they will be the one to coordinate with the Box team once you need assistance regarding your permissions inquiry.

    Thanks for posting! 

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  • Albert Hazan

    What if the user already has permissions on the parent? Do i have to remove them and re-add them?

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