Forum Discussion
Share Folder on Sharepoint Online Site with Internal User Not Entire Site
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.
Even if I try and create a brand NEW Site Collection it is still listed as "2013 experience version will be used" as the template. Why is nothing 2016? Unfortunately this was all setup before I even started creating subsites so I'm not sure how this was all configured. We've never had SP On-Premise.
- You shouldn't have to create sites and pages for each, I would suggest just setting up folders off a root site collection, but you do need to get the experience into a modern mode UI which will make all this much easier.
Your setting might be hard set to only allow 2013 pages and not the modern experience. which will cause all pages to only use the old UI across the board.