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The “Secret” to Share Point Drop Boxes

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G’day, just a little Sharepoint info for you today. We heavily use MOSS in our education environment and one thing that makes it very very useful is the ability of our students to be able to submit work online so that their teachers can receive and mark their work. Now I know there are quite a number of educational facilities here in Melbourne who have Sharepoint / MOSS installed and use it as an intranet solution. By doing this you can take it up a level.

The secret behind this is the use of Custom Lists and Item Level Permissions. What we need to do is create a custom list, so from the Site Actions Menu click Create, from the Custom List column click on Custom List. Give your list a name and click the Create Button.

Your List is now created, so next we go to Settings > List Settings and click on the Advanced Settings under the General Settings heading.

Sharepoint general_settings

This will take you to the advanced settings page and reveil the “Secret”. Item-Level Permissions. The settings we want to take a look at and adjust here are Read Access and Edit Access, make the changes to Only Their Own for both settings. This means that when a student uploads a document they will only be able to see their own and only be able to edit their own.

item-level2

I give Staff Members Full Control over these lists so they are able to see All the Documents that are submitted.

Photo Credit – Licht~~~~’s

Written by Daniel Anderson

March 4th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Posted in Sharepoint

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  1. Hi,

    We were originally going to use this approach until we discovered that there are backdoors wit this approach. If you view the list through WebDav or Explorer view (essentially the same thing), then the settings above are ignored.

    The only way to get this to work properly is to use item level security. We’ve adopted the document library route with an event handler to set permissions dynamically. The student submits their work and the permissions on the document are changed so that lecturers and the student have contribute. Once the lecturer updates the result property, the permissions are then changed so that the student now only has read permissions.

    Mark Parter

    13 Mar 09 at 10:41 am

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