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We have a requirement where we would like to give some of our users the ability to view pending versions of the items in a particular list (not document library) to give feedback. We don't want pending items to be visible to everyone that has read permission on the list however. That means that we would have to give these reviewers permission to either edit or approve; which is something that we do not want them to be able to do.

Assuming these reviewers are in a SharePoint group, is there a way to let them view pending versions while preventing them from doing anything else?

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you can use document workspace maybe ? – Steve B Jun 22 '11 at 8:54
Looks interesting, but unless I'm missing something this is for documents and not for generic list items. – Michiel Rutting Jun 22 '11 at 10:24
yes, this applies to documents, so is the draft feature. Did yuo pending instead of draft ? – Steve B Jun 22 '11 at 11:04
You are correct. Seems it is called "pending" for regular list items. I'll edit the question to reflect that. In the versioning settings for the list the appropriate section is called "Draft Item Security" and deals with "Who should see draft items in this list". – Michiel Rutting Jun 22 '11 at 11:38

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You should check this:
http://cregan.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/web-content-management-allow-reviewers-to-see-drafts-and-nothing-else/

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its the correct answer but it would be helpful to include the general steps to do this in the answer itself in case the link ever goes down. – Mauro Jun 22 '11 at 9:04
This solution is exactly the closest thing that I could come up with using "out of the box" settings. However, it still allows the reviewer to edit the item, even though they can't publish it. I'm trying to find out if I can prevent them from even doing that. – Michiel Rutting Jun 22 '11 at 9:07
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Michiel, I wonder if you have figured a work-around? In my case, it is a document library, but the principle is the same:

  1. "everyone" can only read/view the major version.
  2. "reviewers" can only read/view minor (and major) versions (and also complete workflow tasks).
  3. "authors" can edit documents (and start workflows).

I am having problems solving (2) with SharePoint permissions.

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