Grant users access to items in an entity
You can grant users or groups access to specific files or activities in an entity.
To grant access to specific files or activities in an entity:
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Ensure that you have the Owner role or equivalent rights to the files.
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Ensure that the users or groups have been granted the following roles only on the entity where the files belong:
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Contact - Entity Access role for contacts or contact groups.
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Entity Access role for staff or staff groups.
For example, if you want to grant staff member John Smith access to specific files in entity A, make sure that you select the Entity Access role for John Smith in the sharing properties of entity A.
The following figure shows the sharing properties icon.
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From the Cloud menu (
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Select the files or activities that you want to assign roles for, then select Share (
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Select the users or groups you want to have access to the file or activity, then select Assign Roles to (#).
The list of roles that displays is different based on whether the selected users or groups are Staff or Contacts.
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Select the check box next to the roles that you want to grant the users or groups.
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Select Share.
