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Sharing & permissions
Sharing & Permissions

IN THIS ARTICLE
Notion is built for collaboration, so there are many ways to share your
work with other people. Our permission levels ensure that your
collaborators access your content exactly the way you want them to 📣
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CONTENTS
Ways to share
Share menu
Share with everyone in your workspace
Share with a teamspace
Share with individuals
Share with groups
Share with guests
Share to the web
Stop sharing
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Permission levels
Edit permission levels
Inherited permissions
Permission overrides
See who's sharing a page
Request access
Request access to a page
Request edit access
Enterprise security settings

Ways to share
There are several different ways you can share the pages and databases you build in Notion
with folks inside and outside your workspace. Below is an overview of all the ways to share.

Share
Select
menu
at the top of any page to open its share menu. Here, you can:
Share
Invite someone to the page.
See and change who has access to the page, and what level of permissions they have.
Copy the page’s link to share it with others.

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Select ••• at the top of any page, then open the Publish tab to share your page
to the web as a Notion Site and manage it.

Share with everyone in your workspace

Your workspace might contain other members like teammates, friends, or anyone else you
want to work with on pages. There are a few ways to share Notion pages with all members
of your workspace:
Hover over the name of a default teamspace in your sidebar and create a new page inside
of that teamspace by clicking the + that appears.
In your sidebar, drag a page into a default teamspace.
Select ••• at the top of a page and in the dropdown at the bottom of the menu, select
Everyone at {your workspace} .

Note: A default teamspace is a teamspace that everyone in a workspace must be

a part of by default. To find out if a given teamspace is a default teamspace:
1. Select ••• next to the name of a teamspace in your sidebar.
2. Select Teamspace settings .
3. In the Members tab, look for Permissions . If you see Default , this means that
teamspace is a default teamspace.

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Share with a teamspace

Teamspaces are dedicated spaces for every team within your organization or company. Each
teamspace has its own members and permission levels, which can be customized by its
teamspace owners. Learn more about adding members and assigning permissions in
teamspaces →
There are two ways to share Notion pages with any teamspace that you’re a member of:
Hover over the name of a teamspace in your sidebar and create a new page inside of that
teamspace by clicking the + that appears.
In your sidebar, drag a page into a teamspace.

Share with individuals

Sometimes you'll want to share a page with only select members of your workspace — like a
meeting doc for 1:1s with your manager, or notes for a small project team. To share a page
with specific people:
1. Select Share at the top of any page.
2. Find and select the names of the members of your workspace that you want to share the
page with.
3. Open the dropdown next to the names of the people you’re inviting, then select a
permission level.
4. Select Invite .
Pages shared with select workspace members will appear in the Shared section of your
sidebar. Learn more about sidebar sections here →

Share with groups

If there are people you work with very often, you can create your own group of members
and share Notion pages with that group so that you don’t have to invite each person one by
one. Learn more about groups and group permissions here →
To share a page with a group:
1. Select Share at the top of any page.
2. Find and select the names of the groups that you want to share the page with.
3. Open the dropdown next to the names of the groups you’re inviting, then select a
permission level.
4. Select Invite .

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Share with guests

You can invite people from outside your workspace to access certain Notion pages as
guests. This could be useful if you want to share a Notion page with a contractor you've
hired, or a client you’re working with. Learn more about guests here →
To share a page with a guest:
1. Select Share at the top of the page.
2. Enter the email address of any guest you want to invite.
3. Select a level of access for that guest from the dropdown and select Invite .
4. Select Skip for now to make sure you’re adding them as a guest and not a member.
5. Your invited guest will receive an email with a link to the page.
6. If they don't already use Notion, they can sign up to access your page.

Note: If you’re on an Enterprise plan and the owner has prevented members from
inviting guests to pages, then any people you invite to a page will automatically
be added as members. Before you select Invite in the steps above, you can
hover over your guest’s name or email for more information on how that person
will be added to the page.

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View a list of all guests and the pages they have access to under the "guests" tab.

Share to the web

You can easily turn your Notion page into a beautiful website with Notion Sites. Learn more
about how to share your page with the web here →

Stop sharing
Seeing other people in a page you didn't mean to share? Want to make a page private?
There are a few ways you can stop sharing your pages with others:
In your sidebar, drag a page into your Private section so that only you can see it.
Select Share at the top of the page, and switch off access for your workspace,
individuals, groups, or the public. You can also select Remove from the dropdown next to
any of these.
If you’re looking to remove guests from pages, go to Settings & members → People or
Members (depending on your plan) → Guests . Check the box next to the guests you
want to remove from your workspace and select Remove from workspace .

Permission levels
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For every person, group, or teamspace you share a page with, you can assign a different
permission level. This helps to keep private information private and gives you granular,
precise control over your work.
Here are the different permission levels in Notion:
Full access : People with full access to a page can edit any of the content it contains and
share the page with anyone they want.
Can edit : Select this level of access for people who should be able to edit the content on
the page, but not share the page with others.
Can edit content : This permission level is only found on database pages. People with this
level of access can create and edit pages within the database, and edit property values
for those pages. However, they will not be able to change the structure of the database
and its properties, views, sorts, or filters. Learn more about databases here →
Can comment : Select this level of access for people who should only have the ability to
comment on a page. They won’t be able to edit or share the content.
Can view : People with this level of access can read the content on the page, but they
won’t be able to comment, edit, or share.
There are also different actions that people can take in a workspace depending on their role
in the workspace. To learn more, read this article →

Edit permission levels

Note: If someone has requested a change in their permissions on a page you
own, you’ll be able to see, approve, and reject those requests from your Inbox .

To change someone’s permission level for a specific page:

1. Select Share at the top of the page.
2. Open the dropdown next to the name of a person, group, or teamspace with whom the
page has been shared.
3. Select a permission level.

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Inherited permissions
When you create a subpage inside of a page, that subpage will take on the permissions of its
parent page. If this is something you don’t want — for example, if you have shared a page
with ten people but you want only two of those people to see its subpage — you need to go
into the subpage and update the permission levels there.
Teamspace owners can set default permissions for content in their teamspace. This will
apply to every new page created in the teamspace, and if you want to change them, you’ll
have to make changes at the page level.

Permission overrides
Notion respects the broadest level of access given to a user. Let’s say you’ve given someone
Can view permissions in a page, then later you decide you want your whole organization to
have Full access to that page. Because that individual is a part of your organization, they’ll
be given Full access as well, overriding the specific permission level you previously assigned
them.
Additionally, moving a shared page to the Private section of your sidebar will override all of
the existing permissions on that page. Anyone who previously had access to your page will
immediately be unable to view it once you make it a Private page. Note that this override
will only apply to the parent page — the permissions granted for any subpages will remain
the same.
If a page is set to be accessible to Anyone with link , note that even those that don’t have the
direct link may be able to access it if:
The page is mentioned in or linked from another page shared more broadly.
The page uses a two-way relation that links to another page shared more broadly.
The page is nested inside another page that has been shared more broadly.
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See who' s sharing a page

You can tell who else has access to a page because their profile photos can be seen in the
bar at the very top of the page.
An avatar appears faded out if that person is not currently looking at the page.
An avatar appears unfaded if the person is currently on the page.
Hovering over an avatar will show you the person's name, email, and when they were last
on the page.
Clicking on an active avatar will jump you to the part of the page where they're reading or
typing.
When people are collaborating on the same page at the same time, you'll see their avatars
move next to the blocks they are looking at or editing.
Click ••• at the top right of any page and look at the bottom of the menu that pops up.
You'll see who last edited the page and when.

Request access
Request access to a page
If you open a page that you don’t have access to, you can select No access on the page to
send a request. This will notify the page’s creators or editors, who can choose to accept or
deny your access request.

Request edit access

If you have view or comment access to a page and want edit access:
1. Open the page and select Share .
2. In the Share tab, you’ll see what level of permissions you currently have. Open the
dropdown next to this information.
3. Select Request Edit Access .
This request will go to the page creator, who can accept or ignore it. You’ll be notified once
your request has been accepted — try refreshing the page if you’re not able to edit it.

Enterprise security settings

If you’re a workspace owner on an Enterprise plan, you can control content sharing with
additional security settings. Learn more about these features here →
To see these settings, go to Settings & members in your sidebar, then select Security & data .
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FAQs
I tried adding a guest to my workspace but they were turned into a member
automatically. How can I prevent that?
I want to share a page with a client, but they don't use Notion.
My Export button is missing, it doesn't appear in any menus.
Can I limit access to different parts of a database? Can you make it so that some
people can see certain database views or properties, but not others?
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