(Sub)Folder sharing

mike_hölscher

Hello,

Is sub-folder Sharing is not possible? The Share option is greyed out when selecting a folder other than a root-Folder.
It seems to be possible on a document level though.

I wanted to give an intern with an Educational Onshape account some persmissions on a specific set of documents in a subfolder, but this was only possible by sharing each document separately.

Is this correct?

Mike

kevin_guo

Mike,

Your observation is correct. In order to reduce the complexity of folder management, only top level folders can be shared, child folders can not be shared.

Documents on the other hand can be shared always regardless of their location for flexibility. While inside a folder, document sharing will work in conjunction with the parent  folder's sharing permissions.

Kevin

abefeldman

Thanks for the feedback, @mike_hölscher, I've logged both subfolder sharing and sharing multiple documents as improvements.

kevin_guo

Mike,

Your observation is correct. In order to reduce the complexity of folder management, only top level folders can be shared, child folders can not be shared.

Documents on the other hand can be shared always regardless of their location for flexibility. While inside a folder, document sharing will work in conjunction with the parent  folder's sharing permissions.

Kevin

nat_mishkin

Correct. Sharing can be specified only at the top-level of a folder tree. Feel free to post a request for more fine-grained folder sharing options in the "Improvement Requests" category.

mike_hölscher

Allright. Thanks.

Allowing to change the Sharing options for multiple documents at one would also do the trick. But that is not possible either. Just looking into a way to edit permissions on a group of files at once, that are not in a top level folder.

abefeldman

Thanks for the feedback, @mike_hölscher, I've logged both subfolder sharing and sharing multiple documents as improvements.