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
I wanted to share a positive twist, a successful outcome to another scenario in the “document libraries visible in site contents despite permissions” saga.
In a client situation, we recently had to restructure sites then copy content over from the old structure. I used ControlPoint (Metalogix, formerly Axceler) to copy entire subsites or specific lists. For 40 + libraries, I selected the option to retain permissions (they were unique to particular users). The site contents visibility on the destination site honoured those permissions yet the source site – where the libraries were created – did not.
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