I’m giving the family plan a trial run, and have two questions I can’t see how to do and haven’t been able to find covered anywhere.
Q1: Suppose I have 6 family members and I am the owner/administrator. I can setup collections and limit membership to select family members, but it looks like I must always be a member of every collection. Is there any way members can have a collection just between themselves? This would be preferable for, say, my son and daughter-in-law, who may not want me to have access to their bank logins, etc.
Q2: Similar to Q1, can a member of my family group also be a member of another (non-family) collection? I’m thinking of my daughter-in-law, who might want to share some passwords with her own parents, but whom I wouldn’t want to have access to our family vault.
A1: You can edit the permissions for a collection so that you do not have read access. This will hide the collection from you when accessing your own vault in day-to-day use. However, as admin/owner, you could still access the hidden collection content by going to the Web Vault to manage the organization vault. Thus, there would have to be some level of trust that you are going to refrain from doing so.
A2: She and her parents would have to set up their own, separate organization. I’m not sure if members of a family plan have the ability to set up a Free Organization, but regardless, a free organization would only allow sharing with one other user, so it probably would not be a good solution for the use-case you’ve described. Thus, most likely, she or one of her parents would need to set up a separate Family Plan organization, that they would all three be members of.
Thanks for that bit of useful information. I spent most of yesterday afternoon tinkering around but couldn’t change my own access to any collection I created. I would have given up and considered it impossible, but with your comment I kept at it and finally discovered I needed to edit my own “role” and untick the setting under the Collections tab before creating a collection.
As you say, as admin/owner it’s not an ideal solution, but it should be satisfactory.
Okay, thanks. I hadn’t thought of that, but that makes sense now that I’m getting a better handle on the relationship between accounts and organizations and collections. That also gives me better insight into what was going on with my own “free account” and “free organization” that I had been using previously.