# Folders

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### **1. What Folders Can Do**

Folders now allow you to:

* Share all documents inside with your workspace
* Apply consistent Viewer / Commenter / Editor permissions
* Collaborate at scale without individually sharing every document
* Create subfolders with their own access behaviors
* Transfer ownership between teammates
* Move items across folders while maintaining security

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### **2. Folder Permissions**

You can share a folder with anyone in the workspace using:

* **Viewer** — Can view
* **Commenter** — Can view and comment
* **Editor** — Can create, edit, rename, move items

When you share a folder, everything inside inherits these permissions automatically.

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### **3. How Permission Inheritance Works**

The permission model follows a simple hierarchy:

**Folder → Subfolder → Document**

By default:

* All items inside a shared folder inherit its permissions
* New items added later also inherit
* Changes at the parent apply downward unless an override is present

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### **4. Overriding Inherited Permissions**

Sometimes a subfolder or document needs *more* access than the parent provides. In Presight:

#### ✅ **Overrides can only grant higher permissions than the parent**

Examples:

* Parent: Viewer → Child doc can be Commenter or Editor
* Parent: Commenter → Child doc can be Editor
* Parent: Editor → Child doc cannot be changed (already max)

#### ❌ **Overrides cannot restrict or lower permissions**

You *cannot* set a child item to:

* Viewer when parent gives Commenter or Editor
* Commenter when parent gives Editor
* “No access” to someone who already has access through parent

This ensures no silent permission loss or accidental locking.

#### Additional rules:

* Overrides stay explicit and won’t update if the parent’s permissions change
* Moving an overridden item into a new folder may replace the override depending on the new parent

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### **5. Ownership Model**

#### Folder Ownership

* The creator of a folder becomes its **Owner**
* Owners control sharing, permissions, and transfer of ownership

#### Document Ownership

* Documents retain their individual owners even when moved
* Folder ownership does not automatically change document ownership
* Editors may modify a document but do not become its owner

*Ownership is independent from permissions.*

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### **6. Moving Items**

When moving a document or subfolder:

* It adopts the permissions of the destination folder
* Higher-level overrides may be removed if they violate the new parent’s rules
* Users may gain or lose access depending on the target folder
* Owners remain unchanged
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