Automatically grant access to parent folders when giving access to a subfolder

Hello Devoltuions,

I ran into a bit of an issue with permissions in RDM and wanted to suggest a possible improvement.

At the moment, if you create a permission group and assign it to a subfolder, the user gets access to that folder, but not to the folders above it.

For example:

Customers
-> Customer 1
-> Customer 2
-> Customer 3

If I assign a permission group to Customer 1, but the user doesn't have access to the Customers folder, the user won't actually see Customer 1, because they can't access the parent folder in the first place.

This can complicate things when you have a lot of customers under one main folder. In our case, we have a general permission group that is inherited by all (around 80) customer folders, but when we also want to give a specific user access to only one particular customer, we can't (without much rework) because the view permission is set on customer and inherited by all customers. Due to that, just creating one new group for that specific customer doesn't help either, because as soon you give view permission on the main customer folder, it is inherited by all other customers.

It would be nice if RDM could handle this automatically.

My preferred solution would be that, when you grant a user/group access to a subfolder or entry, RDM automatically gives them the required access to the parent folders above it.

So, for example, if I give someone access to:

Customers → Customer 1 → Servers

RDM would automatically give them enough access to Customers and Customer 1 to allow them to navigate to Servers, without giving them access to the other customers or subfolders/entries in a specific customer.

Alternatively, there could be an option/checkbox when assigning the permission group, something like:

[x] Grant access to parent folders

I think automatically granting the required access to the parent folders makes the most sense, though. If I've explicitly given a user access to a subfolder or entry, but they can't actually see it because they don't have access to the folders above it, the permission doesn't really do anything.

Maybe there is already a recommended way of handling this scenario in RDM and if so, i would love to hear it.

BR
Mauricio