3.1 Understanding Shared-Access Rights

NOTE:Net Folder sharing is limited to individual files. In other words, Folders in Net Folders cannot be shared.

Shared-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 do the following:

  • Shared Folders: View

  • Shared Subfolders: View

  • Files in Folders and Subfolders: View and Read

Editor: Users can do the following:

  • Shared Folders: View

  • Shared Subfolders: View

  • Files in Folders and Subfolders: View, Read, and Write

Contributor (Applies only to folders in My Files): Users can do the following:

  • Shared Folders: View, Rename, Delete, or Copy

    IMPORTANT:Exercise caution when granting Contributor shared-access rights because, as stated above, share recipients can rename, copy, and even delete the folder from your My Files area.

  • Shared Subfolders: View, Rename, Delete, Copy, and Move

  • Files in Folders and Subfolders: View, Rename, Delete, Copy, Move, Read, and Write

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.