Showing posts with label sharepoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sharepoint. Show all posts

Friday, July 2, 2010

Sharepoint 2007: 'Only their own' permission on Document Library - Update!

OK, after getting tired of manually setting this using Sharepoint Manager 2007, I decided to put together a solution. This solution provides a nice drop-down on the Document Library 'Security' menu like this:



And when you click on the 'Read/Write Security' link, you'll see this:



It looks and acts just like the page for standard lists - but this one also works for document libraries.

Download the solution from codeplex at http://moresharepoint.codeplex.com

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Sharepoint 2007: Picture Library limitations

In working with the Picture Library in Sharepoint 2007, I've run across 2 limitations:

1. No web part connections. For some reason Microsoft decided that Picture Libraries would never need web part connections. It's greyed out, as seen here:



2. Picture Libraries do not have the option to give users permissions to only view the pictures they created (and not view pictures that other users created). You can do this on non-document, non-picture library lists. Here is what it looks like on the 'Advanced Settings' page for a list:


But you don't get that on a picture library.