You should be able to perform these steps with "Design" but not "Contribute" permissions, unless your site admin has created some special permissions.
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Browse All TopicsI am working with a SharePoiint TEAM site. I am the site Manager, not Owner (so I have restricted permissions).
When creating a new document library, I would like to be able to restrict access to only a few users. Is this possible?
I found that I could create a Document Workspace... and this would allow me to set unique permissions... and it even allows me to create/use groups (which is one of the restrictions to site Managers!).
Any suggestions/clarifications
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Actually we are having defult groups as
If You are a Site Owner then go to
Document Library and click Settings > Document Library Settings > Under
Permissions and Management choose Permissions for this document library and
remove the inherited from parent (if it is having) and then remove the users you don't
want from that list and add your desired users.
Thanks
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by: FFNetAdminsPosted on 2009-11-02 at 14:46:05ID: 25724583
If you can create Document Libraries, then you should be able to manage security on it. After creating your Document Library, click into it, then click Settings (next to New,Upload,Actions, etc, not Site Actions) and then Document Library Settings. Now in the middle of the screen you should select 'Permissions for this Document Library'.
This page will allow you to manage the security and either inherit permissions from its parent Web site or to manage permissions directly, which is what I think you're asking for.