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Teams and Channels - Private Vs Public
I'm not a big fan of private channel because of the overhead it creates (New sharePoint site) and some missing features like plan a meeting for a private channel. I think the only driver to get private channel is for confidential discussions. My definition of a team is people who works together... However, it makes sense to get some sensitive/admin documents not available to everyone in the team. The way I do it is to create a sub folder into a channel and change permissions on the folder in SharePoint.
This is how I see it.
- How do you create a Public channel and keep the documents on the channel as view only? That is the really the only reason for the channel is to share the documents and one place for everyone to go to access them.
How do you create a Public channel and keep the documents on the channel as view only?
Do you mean they would be read/write for members and read-only for everyone else in the org?- Yes, everyone in the org would have read only access. And if we make the channel Public, users can access the sharepoint site without us having to grant them access individually? And will they be able to add the Team channel to their list of channels and their access to the files will stay the same?
Hi Matcole It would seem to me that one could make the documents in the private channel read-only at the document level, not the Teams level. I admit that I haven't done this - all of the docs I access can be edited by members of the private channel. Just a thought.
