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Sharepoint 2013 : The Server was Unable to Save the Form at this Time. Please Try Again

I have a Sharepoint 2013 installation, single server farm. I have created a site, added user to the site with View & Restricted Read permission. I have created a Issue Tracker in the site, broke ...
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Does a column exist in SharePoint that shows permissioned users?

We have a library that we are using for sales commissions approval. Each document has unique permissions (approver and commission recipient). Is there a column that can be added that would show all ...
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Create a contact list from a site permission group in SP13?

Just like many others here I have been designated our command (or company) SCA with little experience and have been charged with designing the website. Just as my title says, is there a way to create ...
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Security Implications of Deactivating Limited-access User Permission Lockdown Mode Feature

There is a site collection on my farm that is accessible outside of our network but does not allow anonymous access. Presently, we are experiencing some permissions issues where users need access to ...
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Limit of unique permissions per site collection

How many items/documents/folders with unique permissions can you have per site collection? I am aware of the boundaries of 5,000 scopes per list/library and 5,000 members per scope. I assume it is ...
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SharePoint 2013 Document Permissions

I have a (what I thought is a simple task): I would like to set permissions on my SharePoint 2013 on-premise as follows: Each department has its own site (e.g Finance, HR, Admin etc) I would like ...
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GetUserEffectivePermissionInfo for the 2013 Rest API

Does anyone know if there is a client-side (preferably REST) equivalent to SPSecurableObject.GetUserEffectivePermissionInfo(username)??
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SharePoint 2013 Search - What Permissions are required to properly administer a Site Collection

I am providing search results for a project. I'm leveraging the Term Store, Result Sources, Result Types, custom Display Templates... Everything. Everything works perfectly. This was all done on ...
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Access denied to lookup column in workflow

I have 2 subsites in a SharePoint 2013 farm, at the same level in the same site collection. Workflow was created in site A as a test before recreating in site B (live). The workflow sets a variable to ...
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User permissions inheritance problem

I have the following problem with Sharepoint 2013 on-premises: Given a site http://site/quality, and its subsite http://site/quality/dc. All user are organized in groups, let's take one group called ...
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SharePoint 2013 Manage Permissions of Users from trusted Identity Provider

In SharePoint 2013, what permissions does a user need to be able to read users from a Trusted Identity Provider? I have one configured and Site Collection admins have no trouble modifying permissions,...
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Enable "Community Site Feature" on a subsite site, will prevent users from accessing it unless they have contribute permision on the root site

I am working on an on-premises team site collections 2013. now the site collection have some sub-sites which have unique permissions. and for certain users they only have contribute permission on the ...
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Sharepoint 2013 BreakInheritance Breaks List

I am developing a dynamic approval workflow for a list library. I use a combination of 2013 and 2010 workflows in a 2013 on-premise environment. The workflow has some requirements that I am trying to ...
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SharePoint 2013 Issue sharing 'Folder' within Document Libraries

I'm hoping there are others who have experienced an issue with Sharing folders on SharePoint 2013? Using the Share functionality within a document library, I am able to invite users (to edit or read) ...
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Provide permission access to document set

I have a document set that I have broken permission with the parent document library and added a specific user to have contribute access. They have access to the files in the document set, but not to ...
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SharePoint 2013 edit page permission

I have following requirement:- Give only edit page permission to contributor on pages in SharePoint 2013 site. It means contributor member should be able to edit page but should not able to able ...
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Setup item permissions using sharepoint workflow 2013

I have a SharePoint 2013 workflow that was created for us by a third party. There is one copy of the workflow deployed on a test install of sharepoint and one in production. It is applied to a ...
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Sharepoint 2013 version history for anonymous users

i have Sharepoint 2013 site with anonymous access enabled. I have custom list with versioning enabled. Can anyone tell me best way to enable "Version History" access (view permissions) for anonymous ...
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Cannot create listitem REST API in SP 2013 with contributes rights

I have an issue with our Travel Tool based on SharePoint 2013. This tool consists of different Content Types - all in their specific lists (travel requests, train rides, flights, etc.). There are two ...
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Using Active Directory Groups for Permissions

I have been researching the AD vs SharePoint group question and have found many conflicting answers. We are beginning a SharePoint 2013 on-prem implementation for an intranet serving about 4000 users ...
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OneDrive for Business Permissions

I have a few users that have non-standard permissions for OneDrive for Business . I've found a PowerShell Script that will list all OneDrives but not the permissions. Is there a way given a site, to ...
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Site/Page permissions based on FBA roles

I've setup FBA for SharePoint 2013. I need that only users that have a specific FBA role be able to access to a specific Page. I tried: - Adding a FBA role into a Site Group and give permissions to ...
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allow contributor users to add web parts to a page without granting them “Add and Customize Pages” permission

I am working on an enterprise wiki site collection, and when contributor users try to add web parts they will get the following error:- A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be ...
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Sharepoint 2013 - ASP.NET/HTML Requires Sign-in to render?

I have a website where one specific block of ASP.NET/HTML code renders only when I am signed into the website. This happens across all browsers. I need the 'caption_homebanner' div to render for ...
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What is the correct way to grant permissions needed for Visual Studio 2012/2013 to connect to SharePoint 2013?

I'm attempting to use the "Empty Project" template in Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013 and I'm having trouble determining the least-privilege way to do so. When attempting to add an event ...
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Cannot create new subsite in SharePoint 2013

When I tried to create a new subsite under a site collection, I get the error message "Sorry, this site hasn't been shared with you." after I click the "Create" button. I entered the newsbweb.aspx by ...
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Sub-sites contributors and reader are unable to view the sub-site navigation

I have created a term store using the site collection administrator. And I associate this term store with a sub site navigation. But the problem I am facing is that the sub-site readers and even the ...
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Is it possible to change a permission level based on the creator of the content?

Currently using a SharePoint 2013 installation and I was wondering whether it is possible for a given document in a library to be available to someone based on the permissions of the creator? Creator ...
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How to delete SharePoint group using membershipgroupid in SP 2013

I am trying to move SharePoint Groups from one site collection to another. In target site, the SharePoint groups got created. But the SP groups are showing in groups.aspx & not in user.aspx. Also ...
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Sorry, you don't have access to this page when signed in as site collection administrator

Wondering if you can offer any help. I have a SharePoint 2013 environment that is displayed "Sorry, you don't have access to this page" to all users when trying to access any part of a site across ...
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Site visitors with read permissions getting access denied?

Ran into a strange permission issue I can't seem to figure out. Objective: set up an anonymous survey that, on submission, redirects to a "thank you" page. Set up: Survey list set up on https://...
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Remove User from SP Group without being a Full Control User Programmatically C#

I have a situation where I am creating a "Secondary Admin" role within a custom project I am building. I need the second admin to be able to remove a user from a group without giving the permissions ...
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Add users to Group with REST calls

We are using REST (with jQuery ajax) to create groups and add members to the groups. We are using the code below (cleaned up a little for legibility). function createGroup(title,user){ var ...
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Access Denied Problem With Only One Browser

I'm currently having a problem with permission rights for a SharePoint site. I have a given page on a SharePoint site and I'm trying to email a link to this page using a hyperlink (through email) to a ...
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SharePoint 2013 content editor wepart permissions

Is there a way to set permissions to a CEWP in SP2013 on-prem? What i'm trying to do is create a button to a network shared drive, and depending on the permissions set on a SP security group they'll ...
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How to allow Contributor users to mark discussion board items as Featured

I am working on a Discussion Board list inside sharepoint on-premises 2013. and i added a discussion board list inside my team site. where this team site have the publishing features enabled. But i ...
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'Open with Explorer' disabled for specific user

I have a domain user which has disable the button 'Open with Explorer' in a Library. So far, I tried: Windows 10 with IE11 32 bits (runned from C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe) ...
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Why Contributor users can Share documents directly inside Office 365 (SP online) while on the on-premises the request will be sent to site owner

I got confused on how the Share feature works in sharepoint online and on sharepoint on-premises. now i thought that this rule is the based line for SP online and onpremises 2013:- if a user does ...
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SharePoint 2013 Document Library Cannot edit folder/file permissions

I get the following error when trying to edit a file permission or folder permission in document library from either the dropdown or from the ribbon. anyone seen this before: Below is the event ...
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Get level permission using user login name?

I'm on SharePoint 2013 and I'm using C#. I'm working with the ItemAdding event receiver. Using SPItemEventProperties I can get the user login name associated with the file I'm adding, with this kind ...
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You do not have permission to run the RECONFIGURE statement

I am attempting to upgrade a SP2010 content database to SP2013. Once I get to 100% of the Mount-SPContentDatabase, etc, I am presented with the error: Mount-SPContentDatabase: user does not ...
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Is it possible to modify site permissions with a workflow?

Currently I have successfully implemented sub-site creation via a workflow in SPD for SharePoint 2013. I'm currently looking to customize the sub-site that is created by breaking inheritance for that ...
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List view shows only those items which are shared with the user

I have a document library and it has some folders. Everyone can view all the folders. Folders are shared with some users giving edit permission. I want to create two list view of this library. ...
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Security Trimmed Control in case of Permission Inheritance Break in SharePoint 2013

We have a requirement to hide the gear icon (site settings, site contents etc) based on the user permission. We have implemented by using the Security Trimmed control snippet in the master page. ...
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User can't able to share document

My document library has unique permissions. On this library I have given Full Control to one user only. But that user does not having Full control and edit permissions over site. Now when user ...
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Site creation from template - Feature not activated error

I have created a site collection in my testing environment and once i satisfied with it. I created a template (worked fine) Import to another site collection and tried to create a sub site with the ...
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Deploying files from Visual Studio to SharePoint does not start publishing approval workflow

SharePoint 2013 - I have an out of the box "Publishing Approval" workflow set on a folder. If someone drags and drops a file into the browser window, or uses the "New Document" link to upload a file, ...
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Permissions for portal owners are not working

We have issue where we want to grant permission to user to be able to edit content on any SharePoint site. We have added user to "Portal owners" group which should be anyone who can edit anything, but ...
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SharePoint 2013 - User cannot edit documents on their computer, log on to mine and they can (they have correct permissions)?

I have a user who is trying to access MS Office 2013 files in SharePoint, this user has all the permissions necessary to edit the documents but when they open the files it says read only and when they ...
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Access denied to site collection administrator

I am facing a very strange issue. I have two web applications. Inside those applications are two site collections each. When I log in as site collection administrator I can access all three site ...
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