Hello.
I am trying to find a fix for a weird document library permissions and “visibility” issue in SharePoint 2013.
In two examples so far, the client has sites with the usual Owners, Contributing members and Visitors groups. All intended users are members of the appropriate groups. Permissions on document libraries have been separated from the parent, configured so that only specific users can view or modify. Running the “Check permissions” tool on user xyz library produces and confirms “Access for user abc: None”.
Oddly, if users click on “all site content”, they are able to see all document libraries listed. They can see names, tiles for other libraries, total number of items and modified date indicated beside each library tile. This is not good. The client does not want users to see a list of other users’ libraries.
If a user clicks on a document library for another user, the library page displays but items are not visible. That’s a small consolation but still not acceptable.
How do we make it so users do not see other users’ libraries listed in all site content?
Thanks in advance,
Theresa
Thanks again for testing, Henry.
We had pulled in some consultants a few weeks back, they made adjustments in CA, something related to profile syncing but that didn’t resolve the library view issue. One of my colleagues found what he thought was a work-around by adding, removing then re-adding permissions. It worked in some cases and not in others. No consistency.
We were about to make a call to Microsoft support then the holidays came. Something has to be done because this is slowing down the migration of one business requirement from 2007 to 2013.
I assume that if a person could articulate the issue to the SharePoint developers, they will come out with a fix in the next CU?
Thanks again for feeling our pain!
