Augment existing collaborator permissions in inherited subfolders
Scenario:
Folder A is shared with User X with Viewer permission
Folder B is a subfolder of Folder A, on which User X requires Editor permission
According to support, the only way to accomplish this in the web UI is to first remove User X as a collaborator on Folder A, add them as an Editor on Folder B, and then re-add them as a Viewer on Folder A
This is clunky, annoying, and results in a lot of extra notifications.
Clearly this is supported by the underlying file system because you can do it directly with the Box CLI:
box collaborations:create <folder ID> folder --role editor --group-id <group ID> --no-notify --as-user <user ID>
This results in the correct assignment. However while trying to do this in the web UI, an inheritance warning prompt appears and will change the collaborators permission at the parent level too, which is not desired.
This seems to be a very common use case and I'm shocked at the app behaving this way. Please fix this! We need to be able to augment inherited permission on subfolders from the web UI.
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These requests keep getting labeled by Box as "Not Planned." Box ... please stop ignoring your users on this matter. This is a major issue with company security for people.
Example: Parent Folder "Current Customer Accounts," has client subfolders. If team members have viewing rights under that folder, but some team members need editing rights to certain clients, but not others, this is impossible. Box requires every client subfolder be open to everyone who is able to view the client list, unless you add a team member to a folder BEFORE adding them to the "Current Customers," parent folder. No one wants to have to make 100 or even thousands of client folders directly under "All Files," as this would be a mess.
This needs to be fixed. Currently, we have sensitive information under certain customers that requires limited access, and yet the entire team needs to have basic access to the full customer account list. PLEASE FIX THIS. So many people have asked, and yet you continue to ignore the fact this is a very big issue. Thanks.