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Permissions based on columns in a list

Asked By: Demarco Witt Date: Feb 13, 2007 Category: Sharepoint Views: 489

I am a relatively new sharepoint admin and I've been learning as I'm
going but here is a question that a user posed that has me stumped.

We have sensitive information that we have seperated from regular
information. Our users though have different levels of sensitivity
and would like to be able to still have all their documents in one
folder but have views that will let only the appropriate people see
what they should see.
Is there a way to remove the user's ability to change/create views so
I can just create a view with a filter that is defaulted? I know I
could just go to each document and apply permissions to them
individually but I'm trying to figure out a way to do the same thing
based on a column entry.
I'm probably all over the board here but any ideas would be helpful.

Tagged:permissions based on columns in list

4 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Cristopher Gould Answered On: Feb 13, 2007

Views are NOT security. If you intend to count on them as a security
measure, you may find yourself in trouble down the road, regardless of
what limitations you impose on the views themselves. I strongly
recommend rethinking this if you are regarding this as a security
layer.

Answer #2 Answered By: Selena Glenn Answered On: Feb 13, 2007

If you have multiple folders in the same document library, each with its own
permissions, then you can use a view to display all the documents in a
single list (using the "show all items without folders" option) which will
be security-trimmed.

Answer #3 Answered By: Jonathon Palmer Answered On: Feb 13, 2007

That is an awesome solution...............

Answer #4 Answered By: Aastha Patel Answered On: Feb 13, 2007

There is no easy way to modify views to create a security system.
However, user's can simply manage the permissions on the individual
documents that they want to secure. In SharePoint 2007 security can be
pushed all the way down to the document level.

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