Creating a shared folder

nBox allows you to share entire folders with other people. This is the perfect way to create collaborative workspaces for you and your team. When you share a folder with other people, the folder appears in their nBox just as in your own. Changes that occur in a collaborative folder occur for all the folder members. For example, if you edit a document in a shared folder, those edits also occur for all the other members of the folder.

nBox offers two types of collaborative folders: Shared folders and team folders.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHARED AND TEAM FOLDERS

- Storage — A shared folder uses the nBox storage space of the person who created the folder. A team folder does not use the nBox storage space of the person who created the folder. Instead, team folders use space set aside by we.
- Ownership — Shared folders have a single Owner while team folders can have multiple Managers. Owners and Managers can invite new people to the folder and manage folder membership.

When inviting a person to a folder, you assign that person a member role (Viewer, Collaborator, or Manager). A person’s member role determines the operations they can perform in the folder.

MEMBER ROLES

For both shared and team folders:

- Viewer — Viewers can view and download the files in the folder. However, Viewers cannot edit or add files to the folder. Viewers also cannot synchronize the collaborative folder with the desktop application.
- Collaborator — Collaborators can view, edit, and add files to the folder.

For team folders:

1. - Manager — Managers can invite people to the folder, set member roles, adjust the folder storage capacity, change the folder contact information, and delete the folder for all the members. Managers can also view, edit, and add files to the folder.

Steps

1. 1. 1. In your desktop application folder, control-click on a file or folder.
    2. In the menu, click on Services.
    3. Click on nBox: Share….
    4. If a login screen appears, log into the nBox User Portal.
      The User Portal opens to the Shared Folder window. For information on creating a shared folder in the Shared Folder window, see Creating collaborative folders.