# Group/Directory structures

**URL:** <https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204 "2017-12-13T11:00:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jaydabi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@Jaydabi](https://community.passbolt.com/u/Jaydabi)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 11:00am UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204/1 "2017-12-13T11:00:08Z")

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Admin edit: DUPLICATE of

> [@As a logged in user I can organized my passwords using categories in the form of a folder tree](https://community.passbolt.com/t/as-a-logged-in-user-i-can-organized-my-passwords-using-categories-in-the-form-of-a-folder-tree/137):
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> Q1. What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Users, especially people from other passwords managers like keepass, that have a lot of passwords want to sort them together in other to access them quickly. Currently passbolt only allow searching entries with basic filters (like “favorited”), or user groups. Q2 - Who is impacted? People with a lot of passwords or that like to organize their passwords together. Q3 - Why is it important and/or urgent? It will be easier to find the requir…

**Q1. What is the problem that you are trying to solve?**  
It should be possible to organize password entries in groups / directories. If you have a lot of different servers with different services and passwords it will get confusing very fast. Being able to sort in a group/directory structure will keep everything clean and easy to find. [2017-12-13-115316\_204x148\_scrot|204x148](https://community.passbolt.com/404)

**Q2 - Who is impacted?**  
Imho this would have a positive impact of all groups working with passbolt and more than just a small set of passwords.

**Q3 - Why is it important and/or urgent?**  
Imho it is just a good practice to make sorting/structure functionality available.

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**Author:** ![candlerb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@candlerb](https://community.passbolt.com/u/candlerb)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204/2 "2017-12-13T11:25:48Z")

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You can already name your resources in a structured way, e.g.

/shop/amazon

and enter “shop” or “/shop/” in the search box. You can also sort by resource, which will group related entries together.

I think this works better than a rigid hierarchy. You can type “amazon” in the search box and get all matches at any level.

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**Author:** ![Jaydabi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@Jaydabi](https://community.passbolt.com/u/Jaydabi)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204/3 "2017-12-13T12:32:20Z")

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Sure, it is possible, but it does not look really nice, no “good” user experience.

But probably the directory like structuring could be introduced based on such a naming. So let’s say I create a resource like you suggested (e.g. /IT extern/Linux/server01/ssh/user2) and it will view as a tree.

This would mean 0 database maintenance, it would just be an optical feature.

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**Author:** ![remy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.passbolt.com/remy/32/17_2.png) [@remy](https://community.passbolt.com/u/remy)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204/4 "2017-12-13T13:13:48Z")

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See. [As a logged in user I can organized my passwords using categories in the form of a folder tree](https://community.passbolt.com/t/as-a-logged-in-user-i-can-organized-my-passwords-using-categories-in-the-form-of-a-folder-tree/137)

> So let’s say I create a resource like you suggested (e.g. /IT extern/Linux/server01/ssh/user2) and it will view as a tree.

That’s what we had in mind too.

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**Author:** ![remy](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.passbolt.com/remy/32/17_2.png) [@remy](https://community.passbolt.com/u/remy)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.passbolt.com/t/group-directory-structures/204/5 "2017-12-13T13:14:00Z")

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Closed on December 13, 2017, 1:14pm UTC