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Poui
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

How to create a folder in a team shared folder and make it accessible to a small part of the team

Hi, I am currently using Make (a no code platform) to automate the creation of a folder in a shared folder after the start of a new project. The issue is that everyone (30 ~) have access to that fol...
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Poui
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Hi, thanks again for your help but I have two questions.

1. When I try to share a non-existing folder, i get this error instead of it creating like you said :

{
    "error_summary": "no_permission/...",
    "error": {
        ".tag": "no_permission"
    },
    "user_message": {
        "locale": "en",
        "text": "You don’t have permission to perform this action."
    }
}

2. despite removing the access inheritance of the folder, my team still have a folder on their dropbox explorer of that folder. It doesn't disappear.

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

Poui 2. If you create a shared folder without inheritance in a team folder, the other members will still see the nested shared folder itself; they just won't be able to access its contents.

 

If that's not the behavior you want, you may want to create the shared folder outside the team folder.

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