We have a huge issue, which is threatening to become a dealbraker for Seafile and our organization:
Is it possible, and if so how, to give the permission of sharing files or folders to users or groups to more than one user (library owner)? (we do this on the web interface usually)
We have a library filled with about 200 project folders and we’re a team of three sr. team members, who have to be able to give access to projects to jr. members on a need-to-know basis. However, right now, the three of us need to reassign ownership to the project-library each time one of us wants to make changes to the sharing settings or add new shared folders. In addition, Seafile seems to “forget” the sharing settings “sometimes”, when the ownership changes. On top of that, we occasionally have to resync the libraries on our local (Mac) desktops then as well,
All in all, this is really becoming a headache for us. How can we have multiple users with the permission on the same library, to share folders to other seafile users?
When you create or manage a Group, the Owner can set other users as Admins for that Group, by which all of them can then administer a Library shared to said Group.
Thank you, @schlarbm, but I cannot confirm this behavior.
Let me show you our setup:
Group Staff
Owner
Alex
Admin
Ben
Chris
Member
Don
Emily
Fred
Library Projects
Owner
Alex
Permissions
Staff can Read/Write
Yet, Chriscannot share a folder (“studiomitte.com/2016studiomitte.com”) in Projects with Don (or anyone else, for that matter). He doesn’t even get the mask to do so (see screenshot).
Only Alex is able to share. (see screenshot in next post )
Ah yes, right, I must have gotten confused with my test users.
This actually doesn’t seem to work as you wish.
I remember there was some discussion about a more flexible/fine-grained permission model (e.g. read, write, share, delete, and so on), but maybe @daniel.pan or @Jonathan can tell us what’s the status on that.
Giving admin permission to other users is a feature we plan for 6.2 release. A user with admin access to a shared library can share the library to other users.
@Jonathan I know how much suppliers love this question , but do you have a release date for 6.2 yet? Following the naming convention and release schedule at https://www.seafile.com/en/roadmap/, 6.2 should be done just about now
I think you have to be a bit more patient - 6.1 stable was released on 15th of June, so I guess 6.2 is ready in September or October. The roadmap is not up to date at the moment.
@epinez thanks for that update. hard to judge by outdated facts, but i get what the status is now. I’ll try to keep the team on board with Seafile for the time being … not gonna lie, if this doesn’t get resolved we’ll be out shopping for an alternative rather soon again.
Because if we want all subfolders to be shared with multiple users and only some subfolders to other users it is cumbersome to create a lib for every new subfolder.
For example let’s say a lib is already shared to many users (a group) but only some subfolders of this lib needs to be shared to other users.
lib is shared to a group, every subfolder created inside is available to group members, but to other users an admin will need to click share icon > share to user > username > submit
Unfortunately this action is only possible for the lib owner, that’s quite annoying.
Yes but is it possible for a sub-folder within a lib ? I have tried (pro edition) and the “share to user” and “share ot group” link is only visible for lib owner not lib admin.
Right now I need to give owner access to my co-workers who are group admins, so they can share folders with other people (non group members), this is not really safe.
library => shared with group A. owner and group A admins can share it.
subfolder 1 => needs to be visible to group A members, and also can be shared with others (non-group A members)*
subfolder 2 => same
subfolder 3 => same
subfolder 4…
new folder => visible to group A members, but not to other people.
*right now only by lib owner can share it to other users or other groups.
Maybe there is another way to do it but I just don’t understand why admins cannot share a subfolder while owner can, to me it is inconsistent.