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Creating a SharePoint Group at the Site Level (Not Site Collection)
Hi all,
I would like to be able to create a SharePoint User Group, say called "Experts" at the site level (a "Knowledge Hub"). This group has varying permissions to various lists within this Knowledge Hub site. However, they may be an Expert in one Knowledge Hub, but not another. I notice at the moment, when you click on "Create Group" wihin a specific Knowledge Hub it says:
Create a new SharePoint Group. This group will be available throughout the site collection.
An indeed, it puts the group at the scope of the site collection which isn't what I want to do.
Is there any way that you can create a group that is specific to a particular site? That way I could create different Knowledge Hubs from a template, and add various users (or groups) on a per site basis to the Expert group for that Knowledge Hub, but it doesnt mean they are a member of the Experts group for all other Knowledge Hubs.
Any help much appreciated or workarounds.
Regards,
Ben
I would like to be able to create a SharePoint User Group, say called "Experts" at the site level (a "Knowledge Hub"). This group has varying permissions to various lists within this Knowledge Hub site. However, they may be an Expert in one Knowledge Hub, but not another. I notice at the moment, when you click on "Create Group" wihin a specific Knowledge Hub it says:
Create a new SharePoint Group. This group will be available throughout the site collection.
An indeed, it puts the group at the scope of the site collection which isn't what I want to do.
Is there any way that you can create a group that is specific to a particular site? That way I could create different Knowledge Hubs from a template, and add various users (or groups) on a per site basis to the Expert group for that Knowledge Hub, but it doesnt mean they are a member of the Experts group for all other Knowledge Hubs.
Any help much appreciated or workarounds.
Regards,
Ben
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So you are saying you can create a subsite, then create a group in the subsite (which hasn't been hidden or depricated), then go back to the top level site and under groups.aspx, you don't see your subsite groups? If so, you magically did that because I don't see how it's possible. Permsetup is the page that is displayed after you provision the site. Not sure why you would want to go back to this site after provisioning, when you could just go straight to the groups and edit there.
Anyways, if you are wanting to create custom groups during site creation, you are probably looking at a custom site definition.
Anyways, if you are wanting to create custom groups during site creation, you are probably looking at a custom site definition.
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Site-level groups looks like something that has been depreciated (from 2003 to 2007). Interestingly, in SharePoint 2007, it is was still possible from the Site Settings > People and Groups page (or equivalent) of to "Setup Groups for this site (Setup member, owner and visitor groups for this site)" (NB "for this site" specifically!). This option has been depreciated from SharePoint 2010, which would take me to /_layouts/permsetup.aspx. However, the page still exists! I have tested, and I can indeed create a specific site-level group (out of the box, just a visitor, member and owner groups) - which do not appear in the root site collection - so there is scope for a solution here it looks like.