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Iivo Kerminen
Brass Contributor
Jun 15, 2018

How to change one file permissions

Hi   We have Office 365 -group Sharepoint Online site (customer.sharepoint.com/sites/groupsitename) and there is a bunch of files at the Documents folder.   There is few files that I would need t...
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jun 15, 2018
Totally possible...but if the question is: is it advisable? Maybe not :-).
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Deleted
Jun 15, 2018
Agree. It should be a very rare exception otherwise your looking at a headache down the road.
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    Iivo Kerminen
    Brass Contributor
    Jun 18, 2018

    Hi

     

    I am not looking to change permissions for the whole group, just for few files in a Document -folder in the Group SP site.

     

    I haven't found a way to control the permissions for one file. If I try this at non-Group related SP site, I can easily choose a file and then set who has read and who has read-write to that file (Owners, Members, Guests) but when file is in a Document -folder in a Group-related SP site, I am not able to do this??

     

    So is it by design that this is not possible??

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      Deleted
      Jun 18, 2018

      There is no difference between group and classic sites when it comes to the ability to set permissions on files. You probably just aren't used to the UI being modern vs classic?  You click the file, then on the info tab, "Manage Access" link, then advanced permissions to get to the old style view for the document. 

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        Iivo Kerminen
        Brass Contributor
        Jun 18, 2018

        Deleted, have you tested this?

         

        I have tested this.

         

        If I try to change permissions of a file that is in SP site not related to a Group, I can click the file and from the info tab I can click "Manage Access" and I can choose new permissions to a security group (Owners, Members, Guests) or invite some person.

         

        But when I do this same at Group related SP site, I can not change permissions for these security groups (Owners, Members, Guests). There is no switch like there is in a site not related to O365 Group.

         

        For example, I can not set permissions so that Members for that site has read access but owners has read-write access. This switch can be found from a non group-related site for a file.

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