File management rights for non-admin users

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OS:Ubuntu 22.04
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We were doing some file access right managements, here’s the scenario:

  1. Suppose we have two users, userA and userB. userB, in particular, is not an admin of the workspace.
  2. userA created a subfolder “SharedFolder” under Common. This folder is expected to have multiple nested folders and documents, and we want both userA and userB to be able to manage the folders and documents in “SharedFolder”, in the sense that both of them can move, delete, rename, edit and create folders and documents in the folder.

Now we weren’t able to let userB move/rename/delete files, what we have tried is to grant userB with the access right “Full Access” to the folder. It appears that userB can do in-document editing, but not the file management as described; only the owner and admins are able to move files around.

Is it possible to grant non-admin users the right to do this? Or can we grant multiple users “owner” right to a single folder? How?

Many thanks in advance.

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Hello @csyeung

I will take a closer look at this scenario to see if there is solution to that.

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Regular users cannot manage folders, only one folder owner and all admins of the portal can.

Since you are looking for a way to set up rights to several users, I think the only option here is to grant module administrator rights to necessary users. This can be done via Settings > Security > Access Rights - you need to define users as administrators first, then remove checkbox “Full rights” and select only “Documents”. That way specified users will be able to manage all folders in Common as per documentation: