One major consideration (once launched) would be to ensure there is a way to view who has access to the various folders owned by you. Often there are complex projects which include a number of sub-teams and sub-committess that are not privy to all of the information. However as matrixed teams change and are fluid, it's important to have a "finger on the pulse" of who has access and how to quickly adjust permissions.
When we provide access to folders it automatically provides access to entire workspace. It will be good if we can have the folder access separate which will give automatic access to all reports and sheets underneath the folder. But folder access should not automatically give access to the workspace.
@Genevieve P. is there anyway to have this considered for review/prioritization or have a SmartSheet product contact give an update here? Thanks!
This is such a challenge and results in not being able to give people access to items that would greatly improve the efficiency of their workday or going through a cumbersome administration process.
Dear Smartsheet,
Do you have any updates on this request? It was posted several years ago and users are still struggling! You have such an amazing product but folder level permissions really does need some attention. Thank you!
The inability to manage access on a folder level changed our PPM deployment via Control Center. Control Center provides support with auto-provisioning, however our industry requires highly regulated access control on a project level. As an example, we have a Client, and then multiple Projects with that Client. A select set of users should only have access to a Project, not necessarily the Client.
Without folder-level sharing permissions, we had to take an all-or-none approach on a Workspace level - meaning a Workspace represents a Project. This limitation is going to lead to a significant flood of Workspaces in our enterprise portfolio. If we had folder-level sharing, we could have managed Clients at a Workspace level, Projects at a folder level.