Box folder permissions when adding new subfolders
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With Box folder permissions handled in a waterfall manner, any new subfolders added inherit permissions from the parent folder. The best-practices shared from Box indicates that, in order to have users have changed permissions in a subfolder, the user should first be added to the subfolder at the higher permission, and then added to the parent folder(s) at the lower permission level. This works if you are creating an entirely new folder structure from parent down to subfolders and can add users from scratch.
If you are creating new subfolders in an existing folder structure though, they automatically inherit the parent permissions. Changing the user permissions in this subfolder pushes the changes up the entire parent tree and out, completely breaking any other permission settings in that folder tree.
What this suggests to me is that any time a new subfolder is needed you must either be okay with the existing permission settings or, if changes are needed, you must strip access across the entire folder tree and re-add, all for one subfolder change, i.e. completely rebuilding the folder tree.
Is there any way to set up a different permission set-up in a subfolder of an already-existing folder structure that has different permission settings? Or do I have to completely rebuild the permissions settings for the entire folder structure every time I want to add a subfolder?
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Hi Jacob,
Welcome to Box Community and I'm here to help!
As of this writing, we don't have an alternate workaround to exclude your newly created sub-folder to the settings already in place from the parent folder.
My recommendation for the time being is to submit this as a feature request or upvote here and we apologize for the limitation.
Thanks for posting!
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