3.1 Understanding Access Rights

Access rights are how you define which users are allowed to do what with the files and folders that you share with them.

You can grant users the following rights when you share files and folders with them:

Viewer: Users can view individual files that are shared with them or all files within the folder that is shared with them.

Editor: Users can view and modify individual files that are shared with them or all files within the folder that is shared with them.

Contributor: (Applies only when sharing folders). Users can create files in the folder, rename existing files, modify files, and delete files inside the folder. Users cannot perform actions on the folder itself.

Allow re-share with: If you want to allow the share recipient to share the item with other users, you can select from the following re-share rights:

  • Internal users: Can re-share items with internal Filr users.

  • External users: Can re-share items with external Filr users.

  • Public: Can re-share items with the public.

  • File Link: Can re-share items by distributing a File Link, as described in Section 3.4, Distributing a Link to a File.