Different user rights in subfolders
Hi,
I want to have a Folder structure to a group of people.
Only in one Subfolder and below most of the users should only have "Viewer" access, so that they can not change things.
The main folder and all other subfolders all should have edit access for all.
If I change the access rights for one user in a subfolder, the new rights are populated to ALL folders.
Can this be prevented?
Thanks
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Hi Jorg,
Welcome to the Box Community!
Permissions in Box always follow our waterfall permission model. This means that when you add a user to a parent folder that same level of access is automatically inherited by all of the sub folders that exist in the structure at the time you add the user, as well as to any new folders that get created there later on. There is not a way of changing this behavior in Box at the individual user level.
Please take a look at this article for further details about this behavior: Understanding Folder Permissions
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Thank you France. I understood the Waterfall model, but was 100% sure with the permissions for the same users. Your references are always to high level for the user level, not the normal access rights, which are "normal" since 1970 (and perhaps before) and earliest Unix access rights.
I think this should be a feature request to make Box a little bit more interesting. It makes no sense to have parallel folders, just to allow (sub)folders with other permissions but same users. The user access management becomes more overhead for real collaboration work, especially with internal and external users.
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