Contributor settings in SharePoint Designer 2007


In this article I am showing how we can make SharePoint site protected in SharePoint designer for unexpected changes. I am doing a demo on how to setup permission levels in SharePoint Designer.

I have two groups SharePoint Designer group and Share Point Contributor Group

1. Open the your site in SharePoint Designer 2007.

2. Go to Site then click on Contributor Settings.

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3. You will get a screen like below.

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4. I want to create Reader permission group in SharePoint Designer.

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5. In Folder Settings I have selected the below options.

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6. In Creating Pages I have un selected all the options.

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7. In Editing I have selected the first option.

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8. In The formatting I have unselected all the check boxes.

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9. Under images I have unselected all the options.

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10. Under SharePoint I went with default options.

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11. Click OK to create the group.

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12. I have removed all other groups and made Designer Reader as the default. I have also removed all the things under Manage region type.

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13. Now I am going to Create a Group called Contributor.

14. As I shown above select the appropriate permissions for the Contributor.

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15. Click ok.

16. Now we can go to SharePoint and can add one user as contributor and open the site with contributor permissions.

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17. You can see some of the menu items are disabled for the contributor user.

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