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User Folders - Metadata, Classification and other way to narrow the use

  • May 22, 2025
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Hi everyone,

I'm Vincent, with Oxfam's Digital Workplace Team.

When we provision users, they all get access to their user folder. Some such folders contain a lot of content, and collaborators don't know when they're invited to a sub-folder that it's in a user folder and not in the organizational folder tree. That leads to user folders being used more than we'd like, and to some challenges when staff leave the organization.

We're considering what our options are, from applying cascading metadata or classification to user folders, down to restricting content sharing from those folders. It would be really interesting to hear from others if you face similar challenges, and how you've dealt with them.

Thank you!

 

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Thanks 25343918087 great question. I will also looking into this internally.


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As part of our staff on-boarding we tell them that the personal folder is for non-company documents, everything should be in the controlled company structure. When a staff member leaves we assign the leavers content to the manager to review.

 

I had not thought about having adding a classification label but that might help people identify that it is a 'personal' area.


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Thanks for your reply Mark, that's most useful. I like the idea of assigning the user folder to the manager for leavers and will suggest this to our Service Delivery teams, who will be made aware when a user leaves the organization.