Collaboration overview

Collaborations let you securely share files with other Connected users and automatically provide them with real-time file updates. Members of a collaboration have one of the following roles:

• Collaboration owner. The person who initiates the collaboration and has full access to all files and folders in it. At any time, the owner can add, update, or remove files, add or remove viewers, or delete the collaboration. Only one person can own a given collaboration.

  When you create a collaboration, it becomes immediately available to all collaboration members and sends an invitation to all members that subscribe to collaboration notifications. Any subsequent changes that you make to the collaboration, such as updating an existing file or modifying its membership, are also effective immediately and most actions trigger notifications to collaboration members, too. You cannot change the content or format of these email notifications.

  To get started creating a collaboration, see Create a collaboration.

• Collaboration viewer. A person with view-only access to the most recent versions of files in the collaboration. The collaboration owner can specify multiple viewers using any combination of user or group names. Only active Connected users can be viewers.

  If you subscribe to collaboration notifications, you receive email notification email when someone adds you to a new collaboration or updates an existing one. You can change the subscription setting on your profile page.

  For information about accessing collaborations, see View and print collaboration files.