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Restricted folders and boards

By default, a member of an organization edits its boards and a viewer reads them. Restricting a folder or a board closes it to everybody whose access comes from above it.

  • Owners and admins still reach it, always.
  • Organization members and viewers no longer reach it through their role.
  • Grants on folders above it stop counting at the cut.
  • Grants made on it, or on anything inside it, still count.

So a restricted folder is opened by granting it: to the Security team, to two people by name, to an auditor with Comment.

A restricted folder you have nothing inside is not named in your folder list at all. One you can reach something inside of is shown as a way through, with no permissions of its own.

Restricting and lifting a restriction take manage: an owner or admin of the organization, or the owner of a personal space.

Moving a board or folder so that the restricted folders above it change also takes manage — otherwise moving a board out of a restricted folder would be a way to open it.

A folder is deleted only when it is empty. Trashed boards inside go up a level, and stay restricted if their folder was.