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OneDrive Sharing UI "breaking" "Shared with Me" functionality
Glad to hear it Guy Johnson! Sorry we had to go through so much trial and error to figure this out. I'm going to send a copy of this thread to the team so we can make sure future iterations take all of this into account. If you have any other questions, let me know! Thanks!
MicrosoftHi all,
We did release a message center announcement on the new sharing dialog in ODB but it was a month or two back so it has probably expired at this point. The very short version though is that our previous model combined two separate concepts (how do I want to share? and how do I inform the recipient of their access?) in a very weird way. If you wanted to e-mail the recipient, you could only permission the user directly. If you wanted to copy a link, you could only copy anonymous or company shareable links.
In the new sharing dialog, the user now makes a deliberate choice between e-mail and copy, and then another choice on the type of link (anonymous, people in my org or permissioning) to share. We've gotten a lot of good feedback on the sharing dialog and we are constantly looking for ways to improve.
In the meantime, we have a feature in the SharePoint admin center that lets the admin choose the "default link" in the sharing dialogue (either anonymous access, internal or direct/restricted). This chooses the default link that is selected but users can still change if needed.
Hope this helps! Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager
Hi Stephen.
You write: "In the new sharing dialog, the user now makes a deliberate choice between e-mail and copy".
Do you mean the choice between "Share" and "Get a link"?
Also, you write: "we have a feature in the SharePoint admin center that lets the admin choose the "default link" in the sharing dialogue".
Where exactly?
TIA
Salvatore Biscari wrote:Hi Stephen.
You write: "In the new sharing dialog, the user now makes a deliberate choice between e-mail and copy".
Do you mean the choice between "Share" and "Get a link"?
Also, you write: "we have a feature in the SharePoint admin center that lets the admin choose the "default link" in the sharing dialogue".
Where exactly?
TIA
You can find the setting in the SharePoint Admin Center > Sharing
Thanks Ivan!
BTW, "Direct - only people who have permission" means exactly that the link can be used only if the recipient already has permission for accessing the file. You can see this in practice if you "Get a link" instead of "Share". In fact in the first case, where you can send manually the link to other people, they will be able to access only if they already have the right permission in place; in the second case, the permission is automatically created for the email recipient, but the same rule holds.
StephenRice: IMO it would have been much better to put in the SharePoint setting also the option for the default about read-only or read/write.
But after reading all this I'm confused. Why isn't a folder/file that is shared not showing up in the Shared with me area in the OneDrive?? This is confusing my users.
