How to let employees only access a folder to their name in SharePoint

Question

I have a document library with folders. Each folder in the library is a seperate employees name. Example:

Employees/Smith_John

Employees/Doe_John

Each employee submits a document through a Powerapp form that pushes it to a larger folder, "Submitted Documents". I then take the document and move it to John Smith's folder. Is there a way to allow both employees to look in the Employees Folder and only see their submitted documents without applying permission to each folder seperately. It gets time consuming having 100 employees.

Answer 1

Hi @David Humphrey,

In this case, you can add a Person column named like "Owner" in your library. Fill "Owner" field with the name of the employee. Go to Library settings then > Views section > Select the view to edit > Go to Filter section > set "Owner" is equal to [Me].

Users can only see and access the folder whose "Owner" field is equal to their account name in the library then.

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