Global Permission Scopes

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The Applies to selector is part of Global File Permissions. It controls which files a global grant covers.

Available scopes

Scope	Description shown in the product	Meaning
All files	Existing and future files	Covers files already present and files uploaded later.
Future files	Files uploaded after this grant	Does not cover files that existed before the grant.
Existing files	Files already uploaded at grant time	Does not automatically cover later uploads.

Use All files only when the user or role needs continuing organization-wide access.
Use Future files when access should begin with new uploads.
Use Existing files for a point-in-time set of files already stored.

Each global entry has one scope. To cover existing and future files together, choose All files.

The page does not provide inline editing for an active entry. Remove the existing global grant and save it again with the new permissions and scope.

Folder Permissions uses Entity, Instance, or Field as its location scope and has no All/Future/Existing selector.
Document Permissions always targets one selected file.

Do not describe the three global temporal scopes as Folder Permission options.

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