How to hide the particular folder from user under document and media
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Anushka Tiwari
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Issue
- How to hide a particular folder from a particular user in the document and media section.
Resolution
- Follow the steps to achieve this requirement:
- Navigate to the Control Panel > Users > Roles and create a role say- 'Management'
- Navigate to Control Panel > Users and Organisations. Then click on the add button to create a new user.
- Then, in the 'Membership' select the sites and user group.
- Inside the 'Role' section, add the regular role created in the step 1.
- Now navigate to the Site Menu > Content & Data > Documents and Media and create 2 folders say- test folder 2, management folder.
- Remove the permission to 'view' and 'Access' of the 'test folder' and give 'view' and 'Access' permission to the 'management folder'.
- Then navigate to the Control panel > roles > management > Define permission > Site and Asset Library Administration > Content & Data > Document and Media.
- In the general permission section, check the
Access in Site and Asset Library Administration box.
- Login as a newly created user.
- 'test folder' which was created in the step 5 will not be visible to the new user.
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