Create a new project
Who can use this feature
Available on all plans.
Only owners, admins, and those with can edit
permission to teams or projects can make changes to projects.
Projects allow you to group related files together.
- Starter teams: Team members access projects based on the project’s team access level, which can only be can edit for Starter plans.
- Professional teams: Set access and permissions at a project level.
- Organization and Enterprise teams: Set access and permissions at a project level. Additionally, set organization access to control how organization members find and view teams and projects.
Create a project
To create a new project:
- From the file browser, select a team from the left sidebar.
- Click + Project.
Team members access the project files based on their team permissions, which can only be can edit for Starter plans. You can also add collaborators to the project who are not members of the team.
From the Create new project modal, enter the following details:
- Enter a project Name.
- Click Next.
- Add the emails of any users you’d like to add to the project and set their permissions:
- Can edit: Users can view and edit files in the project.
- Can view: User can only view files in the project.
- Click Create project.
Note: If you try to change the team access level to can view or remove team access to the project, you will be prompted to upgrade your plan.
On Professional plans, every project has a team access setting. This controls the default access team members have on that project.
From the Create new project modal, enter the the following details:
- Enter a project Name.
- Click Continue.
- Add the emails of any users you’d like to add to the project and set their permissions:
- Can edit: Users can view and edit files in the project.
- Can view: User can only view files in the project.
- Set the team access level for the project.
- Can access: Default project permissions. Team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions. For example, if a user has can view team permissions, and the team access level for the project is set to can access, then the user has can view access on the project.
- Can view: Team members can only view files in this project, even if they have edit permissions on the team level.
- Remove team access: Remove a team’s access to a project. If you remove a team’s access to a project, team members can only access the project if they have already been directly invited or if project owner invites them afterward. You can re-add team access to the project at any time.
- Click Create project.
Projects in an organization have audience access settings. This controls the default access organization members have to find and view teams and projects.
Additionally, projects have a team access setting. This controls the default access team members can have on that project.
From the Create new project modal, enter the the following details:
- Enter a project Name.
- Set audience access
- [Organization name]: Anyone in your organization can find and view the project
- Only invited people: Only organization members who are explicitly invited to the project can access it
- If you’ve set organization access to anyone in [Organization name], set their permissions:
- View: Users can only view the project. Access to individual files depend on file permissions.
- Edit: Users can create and edit files in this project.
- Click Continue.
- Add the emails of any users you’d like to add to the project and set their permissions.
- Set the team access level for the project.
- Can access: Default project permissions. Team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions. For example, if a user has can view team permissions, and the team access level for the project is set to can access, then the user has can view access on the project.
- Can view: Team members can only view files in this project, even if they have edit permissions on the team level.
- Remove: Remove a team’s access to a project. If you remove a team’s access to a project, team members can only access the project if they have already been directly invited or if project owner invites them afterward. You can re-add team access to the project at any time.
- Click Create project.
Tip: Want to make an “invite-only” project? Remove team access to the project, and set the audience access to Only those invited.
Want to make a “view-only” project? Set the team’s access level to can view. (For Organization and Enterprise plans, keep in mind that if the audience access is set to anyone in [Organization] can edit, anyone in the organization will still be able to edit.)