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Share Folder on Sharepoint Online Site with Internal User Not Entire Site
What I did was click on the folder then Share at the top. I clicked specific people, allow editing, entered their email address, clicked Outlook, entered the subject and body and sent it. Why would that send a link to the entire site and not the folder?
This is the link that got sent:
It is the folder so why did it ask him to request access to the SITE and not just let him access the folder?
When I did share, I did see his user beside the folder under manage access. We need this to be simple for users to use to send links to each other via email.
I have clicked on the folder then Manage Access, typed in the user's name. I sent him the link to the FOLDER but he still gets a message that he has to request access, which if I accept, gives him full access to the ENTIRE document library. Why does nothing work as it's supposed to?
This is the link sent. HeadOffice is a subsite of our main site and Technology is a subsite of that. THis user does not have access to the site itself and I thought the whole point of Sharing or Manage Access to a folder was to give access just to a folder versus the entire site. Should this not work like OneDrive?
Using subsites is probably part of the problem. It does work like OneDrive, but because of the subsite thing I bet that is why your having issues. What if you try the same thing at the root level site collection as a test?Our root site is shared with all users as visitors so they would already have permissions. Dumb question. If SharePoint supports and even recommends using a hierarchy of sites to match our organization, why would that then BREAK major features such as sharing files and folders?
I shared a folder from a first level subsite ie only a single level and it still gives the user a message that they have to request access.
Our tenant level is still 2013 "classic" for some reason so I'm not sure if that has something to do with it. I tried creating a new modern page, versus a site, but it won't let me add a doc library to it, so can't even test that.
I don't understand why it will let us use features that don't actually work. These subfolders we are sharing are project related so they will be UNIQUE per share and are only temporary. If I either have to create separate pages/sites all together for each then assign site permissions, that is an insane amount of work.