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Box: Collaborator Roles and Permissions

Modified on: Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 9:00 PM

When adding a user as a collaborator in Box, you can give them any one of the following roles:

Role Privileges
Uploader
Can only upload content and see names of items in the folder. Cannot view or download any content.
Previewer
Can only preview items in the folder. Cannot upload, edit, delete, or share any content.
Viewer
Can preview/download content, make comments, and generate shared links. Cannot add tags, invite new collaborators, edit shared links, or upload/edit/delete items in the folder.
Previewer uploader
Can preview content, add comments, add tasks, and upload content to the folder. Cannot add tags, generate shared links, invite new collaborators, or edit/delete items in the folder.
Viewer uploader
Can preview content, download content, add comments, generate shared links, and upload content to the folder. Cannot add tags, invite new collaborators, or delete items in the folder. Users have to download, edit, and re-upload files under the same name manually or using Box Edit to update a file.
Editor
Can view, download, upload, edit, delete, copy, move, and rename content. Can also generate/edit shared links, make comments, assign tasks, create tags, and invite/remove collaborators. Cannot delete or move root level folders.
Co-owner
Has all permissions of an editor. Can also manage users in the folder: add new collaborators, change access levels of collaborators, remove collaborators.
Owner
Full access.


When using Box with Workato, you will only be able to perform the actions that are allowed by the level of access of the Box account used to make the connection on Workato. 


See Box Community article for a more detailed list of permissions: 

What are the different access levels for collaborators?

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