Team Shared Documents

A shared library of documents and folders that everyone on the team can manage.

Every team has a shared library: a folder tree plus documents that all joined members can see and manage. It works just like your personal folder tree, only shared. It appears as a Team documents card on the team page in the Explorer.

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A per-team folder tree of documents, each carrying a Team badge that any joined member can manage.

What everyone can do

A team document belongs to the whole team, not just to the person who made it. Any joined member can:

  • create a new document or folder in the library,
  • open and edit every document,
  • rename, duplicate, and delete a document,
  • re-folder a document within the team, or move it to another team they belong to.

Joined membership grants edit access to every document in the library. There are no per-folder or per-member permissions inside a team: everyone who has joined can manage everything. People with a pending, un-accepted invite get nothing until they accept.

How documents are placed

A document lives in exactly one place: your personal tree, or one team's library. Within a team, a document sits either in a folder or in the team's Unsorted bucket, which is always present at the root.

  • Moving a document into a team files it in that team's library and removes it from your personal lists. Only the document's owner can move a personal document into a team.
  • Moving a document out of a team into your own personal library transfers ownership to you, the mover, since personal folders are tied to their owner. (If the owner is the one moving it out, ownership stays with them.)
  • Re-foldering within the team can be done by any joined member.

The unified Move to folder picker is the same browser as the new-document Save in step: pick a space first (Personal Space, or one of your teams), then browse into the folder you want, so you can file a document anywhere you have access from one place. On a team's own page the picker opens on that team, with Personal Space and your other teams one Back away, so a team document can always be moved back to your personal tree.

When a team is deleted

Deleting a team never destroys anyone's work. Its documents are re-homed to their owners' personal Unsorted, and the team's folders are dropped. Each member keeps the documents they own.

A document in a team library shows a Team badge in the editor instead of "Private", since every joined member can open it. If you also share that document with a link, it reads Shared as normal: share links and team membership are separate, independent grants.

Use New document from within a team folder so the fresh document lands in the folder you are browsing rather than in your personal Unsorted.

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