I have a Team Site with folders A, B and C.
I created SharePoint access groups, like Engineers, and then granted this group access to folders A and B.
But I also want this group of people to access the main landing page, which has left menu links to all these folders A and B.
But they must not be able to see folder C.
Somehow, I cannot get the access rights set up properly. Help. Any advise will be appreciated.
So for the whole site’s permission, I set it as
- Owners – full control
- Members – edit
- Visitors – view
- Engineers – view
For folder A, I set it as
- Owners – full control
- Members – edit
- Engineers – edit
- (note that there is no visitors here)
For folder B, I also set it as
- Owners – full control
- Members – edit
- Engineers – edit
For folder C, I set it as
- Owners – full control
- Members – edit
So I thought the Engineers will not be able to see folder C. Turns out they can see it still. They can view everything. This is not what I want.
Any suggestion on how else to do this correctly?
I am just learning about this but I think your problem is with inheritance. Your folders are inheriting permission from the site but you have unique permissions set at the folder level. Since all the folders are still inheriting, all the folders can be seen by the groups at the site level, no matter what you set at the folder level. Break the inheritance at each folder and remove the groups that should not have permission to that folder.
