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
Hello, all.
I had time yesterday to perform some more tests on a new SharePoint 2013 site structure: 3 sites, 3 users, 3 browsers and a variety of document libraries with unique permissions. I even colour-coded the results. See this PDF file link on OneDrive.Â
Unfortunately, there is still no consistency.
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I am having the same issue! I have tried everything that has been suggested in this post and nothing has worked. Has anyone figured this out or is this the way SP13 is designed to be? I have over 1000 document libraries and my customers are having to search through all of them to find the one that they need. What a goofy problem. Microsoft is really pushing me away with this kind of thing. I have put in trouble ticket and they have not replied in 4 days. What poor costomer support.
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I can’t guarantee this will work for everyone but I have found a solution that works for me. Â I make edits for each of my subsites and before I do anything with permissions I completely delete and remove the permissions for that site using SharePoint Designer. Â I then manually re-enter permissions that I have documented. I have migrated them using a tool (Sharegate) and it works but our permissions aren’t very complicated so I prefer the manual approach. Hope this helps some.
Theresa, just wondering if you had a chance to try it and what you found out.
Hi, Karim.
Thanks for testing and taking the time to document your steps. I’m pretty sure my colleague already tried that on the original site that encountered this issue. I cannot test it on the second site scenario presently because the site collection is in lock down. Making a note to test once read-only settings are lifted.Â
