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Give user access to a single folder

scorpiotiger — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:10:41 GMT

We have a site with a large number of folders and documents. I'd like to give a user access to a single folder. As I understand it, the user must be a member of the the site in order to do this. The trouble is if I make them a member of the site, they automatically get access to everything. I know I

Re: Give user access to a single folder

mitpatoliya — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 08:39:25 GMT

If you navigate from the repository root folder structure you should be able to set proper permission only on single folder.

Re: Give user access to a single folder

scorpiotiger — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:43:11 GMT

I can navigate to a folder within a site and give permissions to a user who is not a site member, but they have no way to navigate to the folder they've been given permissions to. They don't get the link at the top of the site dashboard for "Document Library".

Having to make the user a site member and then go into each root folder for the site in turn and manually set permissions to all but the new user is just not workable.

Re: Give user access to a single folder

gawadesk — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 07:03:14 GMT

Why can't you create group and all users to that particular group and provide permission to group. If you do like this way then no need provide permission for every individual user ?