Tuesday 28 April 2009

Document Library Limited Access - Access Denied

I'm sure this is well known, but I've just stumbled across this one...

When you give someone contribute access to a single document within a SharePoint 2007 document library they automatically get given 'Limited Access' permissions to the document library. This gives them view only access to the document library and when the visit the library they will only be able to see the documents that they have 'Read' or higher access to.

The issue is that if such a user tries to access the document library using a hyperlink like this...

http://server/sites/sitecollection/documentlibrary/

they will receive an 'Access is Denied' error message. The fix is to append 'Forms/AllItems.aspx' to the URL like this...

http://server/sites/sitecollection/documentlibrary/Forms/AllItems.aspx

Hope this helps someone out there :-)

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