Google Drive for personal accounts solved this problem very well, so you should fast follow their UX pattern. I can move a shared folder or doc under any folder structure I design because an object in Google Drive is just a link to that object. It doesn't matter where you anchor it and shouldn't in Box either.
The other pattern that Google employs that you really need to implement is that if I move a folder or doc shared with me into a folder that is shared with others (like my team), and i have the ability to onward share, it will treat that move as an implicit intent to share with the other collaborators. Consider two teams working on the same project Project Alpha. One team anchors the folder under their team folder. The second team wants to do the same, but can't because it's stuck in their individual root folders. With Google Drive (personal, not team drives), I can share with my team and no make it discoverable, even though I'm not the owner.
You need to adopt or iterate on these patterns to evolve out of just being a filesystem in the cloud.
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Google Drive for personal accounts solved this problem very well, so you should fast follow their UX pattern. I can move a shared folder or doc under any folder structure I design because an object in Google Drive is just a link to that object. It doesn't matter where you anchor it and shouldn't in Box either.
The other pattern that Google employs that you really need to implement is that if I move a folder or doc shared with me into a folder that is shared with others (like my team), and i have the ability to onward share, it will treat that move as an implicit intent to share with the other collaborators. Consider two teams working on the same project Project Alpha. One team anchors the folder under their team folder. The second team wants to do the same, but can't because it's stuck in their individual root folders. With Google Drive (personal, not team drives), I can share with my team and no make it discoverable, even though I'm not the owner.
You need to adopt or iterate on these patterns to evolve out of just being a filesystem in the cloud.