Dropbox Paper: A simple, powerful way to work together.
Effortlessly create, share, and keep your team on the same page with the added benefit of admin controls to protect your business.
Dropbox Paper: A simple, powerful way to work together.
Effortlessly create, share, and keep your team on the same page with the added benefit of admin controls to protect your business.
To enable or disable Paper for your team:
Note: Paper is enabled by default for all Standard and Advanced Dropbox Business teams created after August 7, 2017.
Export all Paper docs
When you disable Paper, you can export your Paper docs to Word or Markdown files. To export your docs:
All active docs owned by team members are exported. Deleted docs aren't exported.
Admins of a Dropbox Business team can choose who team members can share Paper docs with. Admins can choose to enable sharing outside the team or to within the Dropbox team only. To restrict sharing to within your team:
This setting is not retroactive and only applies to docs shared once the setting is changed. You can see docs that have been shared with people outside of your team in the activity report.
Note: Changing this setting to Off also prevents team members from creating docs in external folders shared with them.
Admins can choose the default privacy setting for links to Paper docs. To toggle default Paper doc privacy:
Note: The privacy settings for individual Paper docs can be changed if the sharing setting allows it.
By default the creator can permanently delete a doc or folder after it is archived.
Team admins of a Dropbox Business team can limit permanent deletions of Paper docs to team admins only. To prevent permanent deletions, team admins can turn the team deletion setting to Off.
Note: If Deletions are set to Off, team admins can permanently delete files by signing in as a user.
Note: The setting applies to Dropbox files and Paper docs.
Admins can unlink devices with the Paper mobile app installed from a team member account.
Note: Since Paper docs aren't saved locally, unlinking Paper mobile devices removes access to any Paper docs on your phone or tablet. This works similarly to remote wipe.
Team admins of a Dropbox Business team can sign in as a team member. When using sign-in as, admins can:
Admins can’t create, edit, or comment on docs.
To sign in as a team member and access their Paper account:
Note: All actions performed by the admin are recorded in the activity log.
The Activity page shows a summary of the most recent activity on a team. Admins can select a type of Paper activity on the Activity page or download a full activity report.
Paper events are recorded for:
To view the activity log: