# Capabilities and Folder Ownership

You can set capabilities on a folder. This way, in addition to getting the usual folder-owner privileges of viewing all accounts in the owned folder (see About Folder Ownership), the folder owner will get the capabilities you specify.

What if a folder owner's replacement is hired and becomes the new folder owner? Will the new supervisor have these same capabilities?

Yes. Since a folder owner's capabilities are set on the folder, anyone designated as folder owner gains its capabilities. This ensures that a folder owner's replacement gets the same permissions that the original folder owner needed in performing his or her responsibilities as supervisor.

## Example

Irving, the head of accounting and owner of the Accounting folder for OmniDesk, Inc., wants to be able to configure payment redirection changes for his company. He calls Alice, the Account Administrator for his service provider, and asks for the appropriate permissions.

Alice grants the following capabilities to Irving's owned folder: Application LogOn (for MetraCare) and Manage Payment Redirection. Irving is now allowed to log onto MetraCare and configure OmniDesk's payment redirection.

Now let's say Irving leaves OmniDesk and John Catherwood takes his place as the folder owner of Accounting. John Catherwood would now have the MetraCare Application LogOn and Manage Payment Redirection capabilities.

## See Also

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