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Survey webpart - permissions gone haywire...

Asked By: Claude Guerra Date: Sep 29, 2005 Category: Sharepoint Views: 235

I was dropped in it a bit at work on Monday with an urgent need to
post an internal company survey at very short notice. The survey
webpart seemed the obvious candidate and after some fiddling I had
something that comes close to what was being asked for - close
enough that the instigator was satisfied.

That is - right up until we tested it on a random guinea pig...

Taking the survey was no problem but any attempt to save a response
came back with a permissions failure. Upgrading the general
authenticated user group to administrator solved the problem, as did
web designer but both are far from satisfactory solutions.

In the end we narrowed it down to the "manage lists" permissions
flag at site level and when tested last night it worked beautifully,
but this morning the error was back and more head scratching ensued.

The list level permissions were reset and once again the survey is
up and running but I have to confess to having very low confidence
in the webpart now especially given that the survey is going to my
CEO.

Has anyone else had such problems with the survey webpart and if so
are there any proven solutions?

Tagged:survey webpart permissions gone haywire

3 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Vance Hardin Answered On: Sep 29, 2005

Further to my earlier post - the permissions have gone screwy again
already. Does anyone have any idea what is going on with this webpart?

Answer #2 Answered By: Kareem Flynn Answered On: Sep 29, 2005

Is this on a portal or a WSS site? Surveys by default do not allow
Readers to post responses. The survey or portal area permissions have
to be modified to allow readers to post responses. If you are using a
portal, put the survey in an area (possibly of its own) and change the
area permissions to allow Readers (or whichever site group) to Add
Items.

The same goes for a survey on a WSS site. Modify the permissions for
the list to allow Readers to Add Items.

Answer #3 Answered By: Tyron Calderon Answered On: Sep 29, 2005

The survey was built in a WSS site, I granted contributor rights to
the site for the purposes of allowing our general readership to
respond to the survey but this proved inadequate.

I initially granted "maintain lists" and this did for a while cure
the problem. The second cure (after it later went haywire again) was
to add the same permission explicitly to the survey webpart - since
then I've had a few more oddball cases but largely the system is
working.

Just granting the add items permission would have been wholly
inadequate but that had been my initial guess...

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