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The users you invite to collaborate need to upload, open, and edit files, but should they delete or share the content with others?  Choosing the right collaborator permissions can save your data from deletion and other scares.

Table showing different permissions granted to View Uploader and Editor permissions in Box. Recommendation is Viewer Uploader permission.
Viewer Uploader permissions provide most functions collaborators need.

Our recommended permission level for most folder collaborations is Viewer Uploader. See the table above for some ways Viewer Uploader differs from Editor permissions.

When collaborating on a file directly, as opposed to a folder, the only permission level available is Editor.

See Box Community: Inviting Collaborators to learn more about adding collaborators to your project or unit folders in Box.

For the full table of permission levels and the actions they can perform, see Box Community: Understanding Collaborator Permission Levels.

The updated sharing experience combines more options in one window.

Box Web is about to get a simplified sharing experience with more a consistent way to share files and folders. You'll have a single, central place from which to invite collaborators, generate shared links and manage permissions. 

Box Update - Simplified Sharing Experience Presentation Deck