Enable specifying org/collection while adding new entry
Feature function
When using the bitwarden extension in Brave (and I assume any other web browser), if one enters a username/password for a site that is not in bitwarden, or creates a new login/pw for some site, there is usually a message that asks something like, “Should these credentials be added to bitwarden?” and there is a button to make that happen. It should be possible to specify where (i.e. in which org/collection) the new entry should be added. This is a feature in LastPass and without this, family sharing becomes too cumbersome, as explained below.
Detailed use case: I am a LastPass families user, together with my wife, and am looking to move our family to bitwarden. While playing around during the trial period, I have noticed a show stopper (for me, and I imagine for others). I have an organization for the family and some collections in it. My wife is a member of the organization and has access to its collections. When she’s signing into a website with a login/password that is not in Bitwarden, the BW extension helpfully asks, “Should I add these credential to BitWarden?” Clicking the ‘Okay’ button adds the credentials to my wife’s personal vault and that is the only option possible. To share it with the family, it seems she needs to:
log in to the web vault, navigate to her own vault, then
either remember the item she just added (or type in the cryptic search string >+organizationid:* to see which items are in her vault, but not in an organization - doesn’t help if she has a lot of items in her vault and doesn’t remember which one she recently added) then
click the item, then
search for the right gearbox icon,
click sharing, then
share to a particular collection in the org.
This needs to happen every.single.time she adds a new login/password that must be shared with the family (read: not gonna happen!) ALL of this can be avoided if, whilst adding a new login/pw, she can simply choose which org/collection the new entry should be assigned to. LastPass browser extensions have this feature. Alternatively or additionally, there should be a setting to enable me, as family manager, to specify which default org/collection the passwords she adds should go to (Something like this seems to be in your backlog already?). As of now, we can not use bitwarden since it is cumbersome to the extreme to manually do steps 1-6 above, (and when our current solution (LastPass) does not require such steps.)
It seems I am not the first person who would like this feature. See below a number of related requests
Related topics + references (mangling some links below, since it seems new users can only include 2 links in a post?!)
Whenever you save a login through the browser extension BitWarden does not offer you to save it to a folder or organization/collection. This is a must as most users want to quickly save a password and move on with their workflow. They will not bother to spend time logging in the bitwarden webpanel, search for the login they just saved, then select and move it to a folder or share it with an organization/collection.
I have used many other password managers, and I cannot remember a single popular one that does not have this option. Adding all logins to the root folder(No Folder) is just bad practice. Especially in an environment where 99% of the passwords need to be shared within an organization.
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That would be great. This way, you can quickly save to organizations without having to edit the item afterward.
In the popup where Bitwarden asks me in the top right corner whether I want to save this login, I can already select folders. I should also be able to directly select the collections of an organization here. If I select a collection from the organization, the owner should also be automatically assigned to the organization.
Looks like there may be something in the works to at least select the organization when adding a new login (see screenshot video):
Seems like the idea is that this will then open the browser extension pop-up to a the “New Login” screen, where further adjustments can be made (such as changing the collection).
I don’t know whether this approach means that the user must also click Save at the bottom of the New Login pop-up to save the new credentials, or if this will only be required if any changes are made on the New Login page after it has popped up. If the former, could potentially cause some issues with lost credentials.
I actually found this change among the updates that were included in the release of version 2025.5.0 (which is already available). This could mean that Bitwarden is temporarily controlling the availability of the feature using a so-called “feature flag” (the value of which is set on Bitwarden’s cloud server). If this is the case, Bitwarden has the ability to immediately make the feature available at any time, simply by changing the value of the feature flag on their end; however, they obviously have a reason to withhold the feature for now, and there is no way for us to know what Bitwarden’s plans are with regards to when the feature will be activated (unless someone on the inside can shed some light — perhaps @dwbit?)
Now I can see the new design. I can now also select the organization as the storage location. But unfortunately no folders. Is it the same for you too?
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