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Aby
February 3, 2021

Admin/owner restrict authority to invite

  • February 3, 2021
  • 57 replies
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Is there an option to restrict WHO can invite others to collaborate in an organization?
OR
Is there an option to completely restrict someone outside an organization to access a file, even if he is invited by someone within ? (Admin pains)

Suggestion 1 : Some options for admin to restrict/allow others to invite others.
Suggestion 2 : Some option to restrict organization level files from outside access (even with invite)
Suggestion 3 : A new “FILE_SHARE” Webhook to catch the file share event and do some workarounds to avoid this problem.

57 replies

ReneLopez
October 12, 2021

I agree it’s cumbersome but you don’t have to uncheck it per member, you have to uncheck it per file.

Hal_Lee
New Member
October 13, 2021

There are more files than members (10,000+ in our org I guess). Unchecking it one by one is not realistic, don’t even say I can’t uncheck some files even as an admin.

ReneLopez
October 13, 2021

well, I never imagined such a number of files 😅 so I stand corrected

David_Howell
November 19, 2021

There’s seems to be zero movement on this issue and it really needs to be addressed, have Figma commented on this being looked into?

luiscamino
New Participant
November 19, 2021

nope… 🙄

i’ve always had the feeling that if huge companies like Google and Microsoft are using Figma, they

a) don’t have a problem with budget
and/or
b) have their own (expensive) processes to ensure not everybody can edit everything
and/or
c) they have multiple organizations within their organization (which doesn’t really fix the issue

In any case, what’s more annoying about the silence from Figma regarding this topic, is that they don’t even want to share best practices or examples from other companies how to work around it. Probably because it would be like admitting the system is flawed.

K4mij33
November 23, 2021

In order to work with them, our customers require an ISO 27001 security standard for summary. So unfortunately I can’t push the Figma tool within our teams until a precise management of users and shares is possible.

(And also, not until Figma Token is natively integrated ^^)

Rebecca_Sue_Brekke
January 28, 2022

All these issues mentioned in this thread are an issue for me too being the one that has volunteered to be the admin for our company, thinking it would not be too much work. Our user group is getting so large now that it is impossible to have control.

A new question that that arose today from a user was “how do I downgrade myself from editor to viewer-restricted?”. This is not possible as far as I know and it should be. If a user realizes they no longer need editor access, but still want viewer access they should be able to downgrade themselves or at least click on a button to ask an admin to do it for them.

luiscamino
New Participant
February 1, 2022

Well people, it finally happened. All these missing features, administration bugs and wonky access controls have finally been fixed!

It’s just going to cost you an extra $30 per editor per month.

Welcome to Figma Enterprise 😐

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Ben_Smeets
Active Member
February 1, 2022

I just had my WTF! moment figuring this out as well, not the only one it seems. If this is true, and this is how they are going to play this, all goodwill will be out the window. Holy moly talking about being tone deaf.

Ben_Smeets
Active Member
February 1, 2022

P.s. although they are ignoring this (specifically created) feedback forum anyway, instead focussing on “the 32 quick wins we heard you ask for on Twitter”. Sigh….