Roles

You decide what people can do with your shared content by assigning them roles, which have specific permissions for accessing the shared content. When adding members to folders, you determine their role in that folder. You may allow documents to only be viewed or you may decide people should be able to edit them and upload new versions. The following roles can be used:

• Viewer: Viewers can look at files and folders, but can't change things.
• Downloader: Downloaders can also download files and save them to their own computer.
• Contributor: Contributors can also modify files, update files, upload new files, and delete files.
• Manager: Managers have all the privileges of the other roles and can add or remove other people as members.

The owner of a folder, who is the person who originally created the folder, has the broadest permissions to manage a folder, including deleting and moving the folder.

Contributors and managers can delete content and delete subfolders. If a shared item is deleted, it appears in the Trash folder of the person who owns the item and the person who deleted it.

Note:

If your system administrator has enabled Microsoft Office Online integration, viewers can only see the preview of the file in the web client, downloaders can also view the file in Microsoft Office Online, and contributors and managers can also edit the file in Microsoft Office Online.