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My team was recently merged with another Org (additional context), and I have project managers from the incoming team, with Full edit rights, who are unable to edit files. My expectation is that when I invite a user as a member to a Figma team and change their rights to “Can edit” or Admin, they should be able to freely navigate the team projects and make edits to the files within.

However, they are saying they have to request to Edit files. I can validate their claims as I routinely approve these requests. But I don’t feel they should have to wait on me to approve their request, considering they are set up as Admin (at the team level).

As a work around, I’m diving into each and every project, clicking the Share button and inviting them at the project level with Can Edit access. I’m hopeful this works—it’s a lot of work. The next level would be to invite them with Can Edit access to each and every file.

This has got to be a bug, right? I feel I should be able to set the access rights once at the team level and for it to trickle down to every project and file. Is there a member control setting somewhere I’m missing?

I may have solved my own problem. During the Create project dialog, on step 2 of 2, where it says “Add people to ”, there’s a control for access rights at the team level with two options, “Can access” and “Can view”. It appears in every situation when Admin and members with Can edit rights are unable to edit, this is set to “Can view”.

Changing the team access to “Can access” appears to have resolved the issue.

For those who have already created a project, this access setting control is also available in the Share project dialog!