[G Suite] Share folders in shared drives with a new beta

[6Foot2]

Link: Share folders in shared drives with a new beta

 

Share folders in shared drives with a new beta

May 26, 2020

 

What’s changing

 

We’re launching a new beta program that allows you to share folders in shared drives. Learn more and express interest in the beta here.

 

Who’s impacted

 

Admins, end users, and developers

 

Why you’d use it

 

Shared drives are a powerful way to empower teams and organizations to store, access, and collaborate on files. Until now, all permissions were set at the shared drive level or the individual file level, and it wasn’t possible to share specific folders within a shared drive.

 

With this beta, you can share a specific folder with other users, or upgrade member access to provide users with additional permissions on specific folders within shared drives.

 

Examples of how you can use this include:

 

• For a marketing department, you can have a shared drive accessible by all internal employees, with a specific folder for advertising materials that’s also accessible to an external agency.
  
• For a sales department organized by region, you can have a shared drive that enables team managers and directors to see all activity, with regional teams only able to see the information relevant to their specific area of focus in a shared folder.
  
• For a shared drive used to prepare for a specific event, you can give all members view access to all files, while providing each specific team with edit access to the documents relevant to their part of the event...

[6Foot2]

I have received a reply after my expression of interest:

 

...Folder Sharing Beta Customer Sign-up

 

Fill out this form to express interest in Beta access for Google Drive's new folder sharing feature in shared drives. Completing this form indicates interest only, and is not a guarantee of participation.

 

By submitting this form you authorize Google to contact you with one survey about your experience using this feature. Such feedback is extremely helpful for our team to ensure the feature is as useful as possible.

 

We are going through the sign-ups in the order that we receive them. And we’ll begin accepting new domains into this program in the coming weeks.

 

If you have a question with any of the form fields below, please reach out to [email protected] prior to submitting. We can only accept participants in this Beta program that submitted complete and accurate forms.

 

Note: This form needs to be submitted from your G Suite domain admin account. If you have more than one domain you wish to sign-up for this Beta program, please submit a separate form for each domain...

[fiza]

I have received a reply after my expression of interest:

Signed up too. Sounds interesting.

[keyboards]

We got accepted into this, anyone else?