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Written by Figma Man

Updated at June 19th, 2025

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Teams Team actions Projects Team files Drafts

Who can use this feature

Applies to teams on the Professional plan.

On the Professional plan, you can share assets at four different levels: team, projects, files, and prototypes.

As this is a paid plan, you also have access to these extra sharing settings:

  • Share just a prototype and not the file
  • Restrict viewers from copying, sharing, or exporting
  • Add password protection to files

Read our Guide to sharing and permissions for more information on how sharing works in Figma.

Share the team, projects, files, or prototypes on the Professional plan

Teams

On the Professional plan, a person's team permissions determine how they can contribute to the team.

Their team permissions determine what team-level actions a member can take. For example: the ability to move or delete team files, or invite others to the team. All teams support the same permissions: can view, can edit, and admin. Explore team permissions →

A person’s seat type determines which Figma products they can access within each team.

Learn more about seat types.

Team actions

Permissions table with a list of common team-level actions and tasks in Figma. Icons indicate if someone with that permission can ✓ or can't ✕ perform that task.

Action Can view Can edit Team admin

Invite others to the team or team files and projects

With can view permissions only

✓ ✓

Share files from their drafts

With can view permissions only

✓ ✓

Create projects

✕ ✓ ✓

Move files and projects

✕ ✓ ✓

Delete team files or projects

✕ ✓ ✓

Update team and project names or descriptions

✕ ✓ ✓

Remove members from the team

✕ ✓ ✓

Change the team name, icon, or description

✕ ✓ ✓

Update collaborator permissions on a team, project, or file

✕ ✓ ✓

Manage team settings

✕ ✕ ✓

Manage Community profile for team

✕ ✕ ✓

Projects

Every project has a team access setting. This controls the default access team members can have on that project. The default team access for all projects is can edit.

On the Professional plan, the project owner can update the project's team access setting.

  • Can view: Team members can only view files in this project, even if they have can edit permissions on the team. 
  • Can access (default): Team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions. For example, if a user has can view team permissions, and the team access level for the project is set to can access, then the user has can view access on the project.
  • Remove team access: Remove a team’s access to a project. If you remove a team’s access to a project, team members can only access the project if they have already been directly invited or if project owner invites them afterward. You can re-add team access to the project at any time.

Team files

On the Professional plan, access to team files is based on a person's team permissions. 

  • Prototype permissions: On paid plans, you can invite someone to a prototype without giving them access to the entire file. You can do this by giving the person Can view permission when sharing the prototype. This is the default permission if you share from presentation view.
  • Restrict viewer actions: By default, anyone with can view access to the file will be able to copy and share the file and its contents. You can restrict viewers from copying, sharing, or exporting from the file.
  • Link sharing settings: Files in a team also have link sharing permissions. This controls the default access for anyone outside the team who accesses the file from a link. On the Professional plan, you have the following link sharing settings:

Access

Can edit

Can view

Anyone: Anyone inside or outside your team can access the file if they have the link.

✓

✓

Only invited people: Only team members and people you explicitly invite to the file can access it.

Access based on user's permissions

Note: If you set file access to Anyone, use the Advanced options in the Share modal to add password protection to the file. Learn more about sharing files and adding password protection to files.

Drafts

Everyone has access to draft files, which are separate from their team files and projects.

On the Professional plan, people can invite collaborators to files in their drafts with can view or can edit permissions.

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