name space & folder

[raghav1206]

What is the difference between namespace and folder in Framework manager

[rockytopmark]

Folder's do not play any part in the full path/unique name of an object, where namespaces do.

You can have a query subject named ABC in 2 different Namespaces, but you can't in 2 different folders that are under the same namespace.

Valid:
Namespace1 --> NamespaceA --> ABC
Namespace1 --> NamespaceB --> ABC

Invalid:
Namespace1 --> FolderA --> ABC
Namespace1 --> FolderB --> ABC

[larsonr]

The other nice thing to remember is that folders will not break your reports.  they are merely a way to organize your metadata within a namespace.  By organizing using namespaces, you risk breaking your reports that are querying  against this metadata as it will now look for the namespace name in those query subjects that are moved.