How to share Stacks with Dropbox Dash

Updated Mar 13, 2026

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 This article describes features available to all Dropbox Dash customers.

You can share your Stacks both inside and outside your organization. You can do so by adding people directly through their email, or by copying a link to the Stack and pasting it where you’d like to share the Stack.
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Note: Adding someone to a Stack with their name or email will automatically give that person access to any Dropbox files or folders in the Stack. They’ll also have access to any files and folders added to the Stack after it’s been shared with them. If you share a Stack using a link, the existing Dropbox file and folder permissions will remain the same.

To add people to a Stack on dash.ai:

  1. Log in to dash.ai.
  2. Click stack Stacks in the left sidebar.
  3. Select the Stack you’d like to share.
  4. Click lock Share.
  5. Click search (search) and enter the person’s name or email address in the search bar.
    • Note: You can copy and paste a list of email addresses into the search bar to share a Stack with multiple people at once.
  6. Add a note, if desired.
  7. Click Share.

You can also adjust the sharing permissions and click link Copy link before entering a name or email address to copy and paste a link to the Stack wherever you wish.

To add people to a Stack on the Dash desktop app:

  1. Open the Dash desktop app by pressing control-shift-e (Windows) or command-shift-e (macOS).
  2. Click stack Stacks in the left sidebar.
  3. Select the Stack you’d like to share
  4. Click lock Share.
  5. Click search (search) and enter the person’s name or email address.
    • Note: You can copy and paste a list of email addresses into the search bar to share a Stack with multiple people at once.
  6. Add a note, if desired.
  7. Click Share.

You can also click link Copy link before entering a name or email address to copy and paste a link to the Stack wherever you wish.

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Notes: 

  • Creating Stacks on dropbox.com is currently in beta testing, and may not be available on your Dropbox account.
  • Currently, you can only share Stacks on dropbox.com with members of your team.

To add people to a Stack on dropbox.com:

  1. Log in to dropbox.com.
  2. Click stack Stacks in the left sidebar.
  3. Select the Stack you’d like to add people to.
  4. Click Share in the upper-right.
  5. Enter the email addresses of the team members you’d like to share the Stack with.
  6. Click share arrow Share.

You can also click link Copy link before entering a name or email address to copy and paste a link to the Stack wherever you wish.

To share a Stack on an Android device:

  1. Open the Dash mobile app.
  2. Tap stack Stacks at the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the Stack you’d like to share.
  4. Tap more (more options) in the top right corner of your screen .
  5. Select  share arrow Share.

From here, you can copy a link to the Stack by tapping copy (copy) next to the link, or selecting the app you’d like to use to share the link directly.
 

 

To share a Stack on an iOS device:

  1. Open the Dash mobile app.
  2. Tap stack Stacks at the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the Stack you’d like to share.
  4. Tap share arrow Share below the title of the stack.

From here, you can select the app you’d like to use to share a link directly, a contact you’d like to send the Stack to, or copy a link to the Stack by tapping Copy.

How to set sharing permissions for Dropbox files and folders in Stacks

Anyone with the Stack link can access the content it contains. However, if the content is stored in Dropbox, access still depends on the file’s sharing settings. Only content with link-based access enabled can be opened.

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Notes:

  • You may see Stacks your content has been added to listed in the sharing window, even if you don’t have access to view or edit those Stacks.
  • If your content is referenced in a Stack, that Stack can allow access to your content via link, unless Stack-based access is turned off.

How to turn off Stack-based access

To prevent Stack links from granting access to Dropbox content, you can enable link restrictions on the content’s parent folder.

When link restrictions are enabled:

  • Stack links will only work for those who already have access to the files or folders in Dropbox
  • All link-based sharing is turned off for that content, including traditional shared links outside of Dash

Learn how to manage sharing permissions for Dropbox content.

This setting affects everyone with access to the parent folder, including people who may have added the content to a Stack. Use this option when you need tighter control over who can view or open your files, regardless of how they’re shared.

Learn how to manage Stack permissions.

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