You can share date with internal users or external partners with read or edit access by inviting those people to a shared item. They will receive an invitation E-Mail. If an external partner accesses the data, the partner will automatically be logged in as a guest user.
The following options are available:
You can share E-Mail messages with internal users with read access.
You can share address books and tasks with internal users with read or edit access, with external partners only with read access.
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 folder, you can define whether subfolders should be shared 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.
When sharing items, internal users or external partners are granted certain permissions for the shared data.
Note the following:
In order to share data, you need to have administrator permissions for the respective folder.
You cannot share your personal Inbox folder. In order to grant other users access to your E-Mail messages, share an E-Mail folder that is located below your Inbox folder. Other users have to subscribe to this E-Mail folder in order to read its E-Mail messages.
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.
Shared folders are marked with the Share icon in all apps except for the Drive app. In the Drive app, shared objects are displayed below the My shares folder.
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 iconnext 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.
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.
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 iconnext 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 iconin 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 the access with a password, enter a password in Password (optional). If you send the public link by E-Mail, the E-Mail contains the password.
If a link should also include all subfolders, enable Share with subfolders.
Invitation options
To automatically send a message to people invited by you to a shared item, enable Send notification by e-mail.
To also apply all changes to a share to subfolders, enable Apply to all subfolders.
Subordinated actions:
Related topics:
Viewing or editing shares in the Drive app
Parent topic: Sharing Data