Content Organization on Dropbox Business

Hi there, 

An issue or limitation that I am running into with Dropbox Business within my organization is the inability to have the same folder in multiple folders within the organization. I work in an organization that has multiple departments that share the same files, however not everyone is in the same groups to access that folder. 

For example: We own a Fabrication business and Festival Production business. 

We'd like to have two seperate heiarchys: Festival Prod/Ops AND Fabrication 

But we'd like to have the same/live folder in boths structures. Those who have access to the parent folder that the duplicated folder lives in, automatically now are included in the group for THAT duplicated folder so there's no access issues. (This is where I think it could get messy).

We'd love to be able to be able to MULTI HOME/ DUPLICATE the folder into both structures. (We do this seemlessly in our project management software, Asana and it's an amazing feature)
When someone adds data to the folder, it updates under both structures. This is optimal for organizations to share info across departments, branches, etc in the intersection of their projects. 

Happy to discuss this further or a way to get this same outcome using other features. 

Thanks!

I Think one of our biggest issues are duplication and conflicts.

We're a big team of around 120 designers with mixed specialities (Motion, VFX, Product design...)

it happens quite often that conflicts happen when syncing or when 2 people work on the same file - this usually creates a strange new folders.

If the original is "xxxx" -- > it would rename to "xxxx (1)" for some people - which brakes linkage of files in Adobe, Resolve and other programs - drives us nuts!

Another cool thing would be a Digital asset management solution - a way to attach some tags to media files.

We struggle with the lack of integration between Dropbox Paper and Dropbox folders. We are a digital marketing/creative/PR agency and when transitioning to remote, we started using Paper to prototype content while keeping the finished files in folders to share with clients (usually in Word doc or PDf form). We love how much faster it is for collaboration and how you can see everything in the folder on the left side (I especially love that you can put emojis in the title and it becomes the icon in the side folder menu. The additional visualization elements help us live into design thinking principles.) In fact, we created a whole new system for client projects entirely housed in Paper called Workspaces where each client has a Paper "Workspace" where we can move through Discovery to testing with everything in one place instead of opening a ton of applications. We also use it for internal approvals and used to use Showcase in a similar manner for client approvals and we were sad that you discontinued that. But why can't we store Paper docs in Dropbox folders?? Why can't the emojis show up as cute icons in Dropbox Folder? I like that we can drop DB links in the Paper Space but I don't like that there is no way to keep them all together. I just think it's weird how well Dropbox integrates with other applications but doesn't integrate with its own products very well. 

@YoucefDropbox, 

I like a lot of pages that are being made with Dropbox or Dropbox Paper.  It would be nice if some example pages or section could be made into templates.

When adding files in a folder, they keep changing order. We can sort files according to size, name, etc. We can rearrange the order of the columns. But we cannot rearrange the order of our files, like dragging it down or up. Or as @mlippmann mentions a tree structure, which would mean being able to grab a section and dragging it up or down in your index list (not only within 1 folder).

As far as I'm concerned, so much of our issues have been solved with the new Collections.

We often use Trello for larger collections of documents and attaching the Dropbox file works great.

But for smaller sets, for one-off meetings, or even repeat use of multiple docs we were really stuck in email, creating aliases and shortcuts, even using webloc-links to refer back to Trello.

Only discovered it a day ago, but seeing how you can group and share your content from all over Dropbox without using folders, it's great; it's like a filter on a specific label really, and I'm looking out to see what else you could do (Collections in Collections, sharing granularity, presentation features…

I like it and noticed your thread, so thought I'd jump in—really want Dropbox to not ditch this beta.