You can share date with internal users or external partners with read or edit access by inviting those people to a shared item. The external partners will automatically receive an invitation email.
The following options are available:
You can share email folders with internal users with read access. If you share an email folder, its subfolders will not be shared.
You can share address book and task folders with internal users with read or edit access, with external partners only with read access.
Note: The global address book cannot be shared.
You can share calendars with internal users and external partners with read or edit access.
In the Drive app, you can share folders and files with internal users and external partners with read or edit access. If you share a Drive folder, its subfolders will be shared automatically as well.
In all apps except for the E-Mail app, you can also create a public link and pass it on to other people.
People with the link can read the shared data but not edit them.
Note the following:
In all apps except for the Drive app, shared folders are marked with the Share icon . In the Drive app, shared objects will be displayed below the My shares folder.
If you share an email folder with an internal user, the internal user has to subscribe to this email folder in order to be able to read the email messages in this folder, see Subscribing to shared or personal E-Mail folders.
When sharing items, internal users or external partners are granted certain permissions for the shared data, see Which permissions can be used? and Use cases for permissions.
In order to share data, you need to have administrator permissions for the respective folder.
You have the exclusive administrator rights for your personal address book, calendar and task folders. You cannot grant administrator rights for these folders to other users.
If external partners access a share, the following rules and procedures apply:
You select the persons and their permissions for accessing a shared item. Depending on the permissions, external partners will be signed in to the groupware with or without entering a password.
A guest user can only view data and the respective apps that have been shared with the guest user.
A guest user does not have access to the following elements: the E-Mail app, the Portal app, the global address book.
A guest user cannot share items.
How to share data with internal users or external partners:
Select the app that should be used for sharing data. Select a folder in the folder view.
In the Drive app, you can also select a folder or file in the display area.
Note: Depending on the app, some folders cannot be shared.
Click the Actions icon next to the folder name. Click on Share / Permissions.
Click on Permissions in the E-Mail app.
In the Drive app, you can also click on Share in the tool bar or use the context menu in the display area.
The window for granting permissions opens.
Note: The following option will not be available in the E-Mail app.
In Who can access this folder?, you can define whom to grant access to the data:
If you exclusively want to share the data with specific people, select Invited people only.
If you want to share the data not only with specific people, but with everyone who gets a link to the data, select Anyone with the link and invited people.
People with the link can only read the shared data. Other permissions cannot be granted for public links.
To invite the desired people, enter a name or an E-Mail address in Invite people.
To set a person's permission, select a user role in Invite as.
To adjust the user role of a person added, click on the assigned user role next to the person or on Details.
To remove a person's permission, click the Actions icon next to the person. Click on Remove.
If you invite people, the Invitation message (optional) input field will be displayed. If required, enter a message.
If you selected Anyone with the link and invited people, you can pass on the link by clicking on Copy link next to the link.
In order to adjust the settings, click the Sharing options icon in the title bar. The following settings are available:
Link options:
To set a time limit for the access to the shared data, select a time frame in Expiration.
To protect access with a password, enter a password in Password (optional). Make sure the recipient of the public link receives the password.
Invitation options
To automatically send a message to people invited by you to a shared item, enable Send notification by e-mail.
Subordinated actions:
Related topics:
Parent topic: Sharing Data