Legacy Folder Sharing Retirement

Salesforce retired Legacy Folder Sharing in the Spring '22 release. It was scheduled for Summer '20 (and then Spring '21), but we've decided to provide you with more time to make the change.  We recommend enabling Enhanced Folder Sharing and reviewing your user access levels by that time.

Why did we retire Legacy Folder Sharing?

Salesforce is focusing its development efforts on Enhanced Folder Sharing to improve the overall user experience with a new user interface and more accessible reports and dashboards.

How will I be impacted by this change?

With the Spring ‘22 release, customers who used Legacy Folder Sharing will automatically be upgraded to Enhanced Folder Sharing.

What action did I need to take?

You were encouraged to transition your users to enhanced folder sharing before the Spring '22 release. Review your permissions once you enable Enhanced Folder sharing to ensure the report and dashboard folders in your orgs have the appropriate sharing settings. In Legacy Folder Sharing, there were only two levels of access, but now the Enhanced version has an additional access level called Editor.

To enable Enhanced Folder Sharing before the Spring '22 release, follow these steps:

1. From Setup in Salesforce Classic, enter 'Folder Sharing' in the Quick Find box.
2. Select Folder Sharing.
3. Select Enable access levels for sharing report and dashboard folders.
4. Click Save.

Also, in order to use Lightning reports and dashboards successfully, Enhanced Folder Sharing must be enabled.

Note: You cannot disable Enhanced Folder Sharing after it has been enabled.

Review Transition Your Org to Enhanced Folder Sharing for Reports and Dashboards for additional guidance.

If you have more questions, open a case with Support via Salesforce Help. To view all current and past feature retirements, see Salesforce Product Feature Retirement.

To read about the Salesforce approach to retiring, read our Product & Feature Retirement Philosophy.