How to set rights on individual folders?

I have just installed the trial-version of FileVista.
I have added one user within one new group.
How do I assign this group the right to view a folder located one level beneath the root?

Permissions are set on the root folders only and the subfolders just inherit the same permissions.

So you will need to define a separate root folder pointing to that subfolder.

Will you ever add the feature to give permissions on folders inside the root that are seperate from the Root Folder permissions. This would be very helpful to create a Root folder for an office that has client sub folders that are setup with permissions for each client.

This behaviour is by design. A root folder represents a specific set of permissions on a specific physical path.

So rather than creating a single root folder like:
c:\office1
You should create 2 separate root folders:
c:\office1\client1
c:\office1\client2

Or you can create a dynamic root folder by using the place holder variable {user.name}:
For instance, you want your users to have home folders under main folder c:\AllUsers . You create a root folder with path "c:\AllUsers\{user.name}" and with name "{user.name}'s Home Folder". Then you make a user named Michael member of this root folder and assign some permissions. Finally, when the user Michael logs in, he sees the root folder name as "Michael's Home Folder" and he sees the contents of the path "c:\AllUsers\Michael"

I tried to use your suggestion by making a D:\FileVista\Root\(office name)\{user.name} folder. I assigned the permissions for a group to this Root folder and added a user to this group. It created the {user.name} folder but everytime I try to log the user in it gives me "An error occured: Attempted to access a path that is not on the disk".
I created the user folder of the user I tried to login but it still gives me that error.

Can you please help me with this ASAP so I can finish setting up this site, thank you.







 

Please create subfolders named same as the member users. For instance, if the user name is SomeUser, then make sure the folder D:\FileVista\Root\(office name)\SomeUser exists. The place holder {user.name} will be replaced with the current user name so you can delete the {user.name} folder as it will not be used.

 Your suggestions for using {user.name} worked great, thanks. 

 I need two more things regarding this. I need to create a account that will be able to login and see all of the {user.name} folders. Is this possible ?

 Also when the user logs in he doesn't see his home folders name. If I make the Root D:\FileVista\Root\(office name)\{user.name}'s Folder it doesn't work.

 The overall plan is when FileVista version 3 is released and I can give users admin access on certain Root folders. Then they can setup folders and accounts for new people when needed.

Just  create another root folder that points to D:\FileVista\Root\(office name)\ and make the account member of that root folder. Then this account will be able to see all of the {user.name} subfolders.

You can include the {user.name} variable also in the Name property of the root folder. If you rename the root folder as "{user.name}'s Folder" or "Home of {user.name}" then the user will see the name as "SomeUser's Folder" or "Home of SomeUser" when he logs in.

Hi.  I've tried the place.holder feature, but it doesn't point to the actual c:\home\user name folder, it seems to imagine one.  In FileVista it creates a domain\user name's home folder, but it's not the same thing as the actual folder above.  WHy is this? And am I going to have to create a separate root folder for each user's home folder?  Thanks

Yes for domain users it creates a home folder like c:\home\domain\user because their name is in format domain\username which includes a path separator \.

No you will just create one root folder which has {user.name} variable in its path. Then FileVista will replace this variable with the logged in user's name.