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Tagging items in shared folders
I currently have the Basic plan and need to tag items in a non-profit's Business Advanced shared folder. If I upgrade to the individual Professional plan, can I do this, or do I have to have a license under their plan? I'm trying not to force them to add an Advanced license just for my use in a single shared folder. I hope this is clear. Thanks in advance.
- Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Hey Bulldog7, welcome to the Dropbox Community!
To be able to put tags on folders/files, you'll need to access those folders or files.
To access them, you don't really need to be a member of the Business team. But a team admin will need to invite you to access those folders.
If they have the correct settings for sharing folders externally, they'll be able to invite you without any problems.
Let me know if you have any questions!Hannah - Thank you for your reply. I was invited to share and edit the folder in question, and can do that, but can't seem to add tags. My question is, to access the tag function in the shared folder, do I need to have at least the minimum Business plan? Specifically if I upgrade my own account from personal Basic to individual Professional, will that enable me to add tags in their shared folder. I'm an old network admin type, so I realize I may be pushing the permissions here a bit. They are willing to let me have access via one of their Advanced users but I'm trying to see if I can keep them from having to do that, due to the cost to them. I hope that may be clearer. Thank you in advance for any insight.
- HannahIt would appear that the tagging feature is indeed available only to Dropbox Business teams at the moment.
So you would have to be a member of the team, to be able to manually add tags to files and folders.
If you have any other questions, let me know!
Reut VCan I add tags within the desktop app? I am using a Mac
