Hi Mike,

First - Why do they "need to be able to periodically assess the storage space needs per department"? Are they anywhere remotely close to exceeding the included per-user storage allocation, potentially need to purchase more, and need that info for dept-level chargeback calculations?

There isn't an out-of-the-box method to get folder/subfolder-level storage utilization in Laserfiche Cloud.

Support may be able to craft a backend query and run it for you as a one-off, but not if you need it regularly.

If you believe each department's proportional storage utilization is relatively consistent, you could consider pursuing the following:

1. Say you have Departments A, B, and C with top-level folders "Dept A", "Dept B", and "Dept C" and current storage utilization of 1TB
2. Ask Support (nicely) if they can run a one-time query to get the storage utilization for each of those folders (with subfolders)
3. Say the results are:
   1. Dept A: 500 GB (50%)
   2. Dept B: 300 GB (30%)
   3. Dept C: 200 GB (20%)
      Note: may not sum to 100% because Cloud storage includes more than just the repository; I'm keeping it simple for the example
4. Calculate and record the percentages. Use them to generate per-Dept storage utilization estimates for future periods. E.g., when total Cloud storage utilization is 2TB, estimate:
   1. Dept A: 1,000 GB (50%)
   2. Dept B: 600 GB (30%)
   3. Dept C: 400 GB (20%)
5. If in the future, dept workloads change (say Dept B onboards a new process that involves importing an extra 1k docs/month), guesstimate the shift in utilization percentages. E.g., Dept A: -2%, Dept B: +5%, Dept C: -3%.

Another approach is to estimate the average document size for each dept (or the whole repo, if there aren't meaningful per-dept differences like one having many large-format scans), then periodically check the number of document entries under each Dept folder and multiply.