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nick_trinidad
Copper Contributor
Jan 09, 2019

Access Denied on Document Library webpart in modern pages

Hi,

 

We use 2 document library webparts in our modern team site landing pages - one for Shared Documents which everyone has access to, and another for Internal Documents where we restrict permissions only to internal users.

 

Until recently, this works really well.  Internal users will see contents on both webparts, while external users will see an Access Denied image in place of the Internal Documents webpart.

 

However, since yesterday our external users are totally unable to access the page.  They are thrown to the full page Access denied page.

 

Could you please advise if this is now the expected behaviour or if there's a better way of showing the 2 libraries on the same page ?

 

Thanks,

Nick

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  • Bruno Aleixo's avatar
    Bruno Aleixo
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    Jan 22, 2019

    the access denied redirect should be fixed in the near future as a fix has been done and deploying to production

     

    Thanks

    • Li Su's avatar
      Li Su
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 23, 2019

      Hello, cannot we just hide the document library web part instead of showing it with an access denied error? Bruno Aleixo 

      • Sunil Sharma's avatar
        Sunil Sharma
        Copper Contributor
        Apr 14, 2021

        Li Su Have you found any work around for this. I am also facing the issue. 

        Thanks. 

  • Michelle McGee's avatar
    Michelle McGee
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 17, 2019

    I'm having the same issue - this used to work and now it does not, but I think I found a workaround.

     

    I created a custom permission that contains only the "View Application Pages" permission. Then I granted that permission on the secured library to all users.

     

    I verified that this allows the webpart to display, but that files get security trimmed.

     

    If anyone else can test this and point out any unexpected consequences, I'd appreciate feedback.

    • nick_trinidad's avatar
      nick_trinidad
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 17, 2019

      I've been doing the same as a quick workaround.  The issue is that our external users can still see the message "Drag files here" which is causing confusion.  I had to inject CSS through an spfx webpart to hide it.  Also, I'm worried that a future release from Microsoft suddenly causes this security change to show the restricted files to our externals which is very unacceptable.

       

      We have about 50 pages affected by this issue.  I am fixing each one on demand but it has already compromised our end user's confidence in using SharePoint as a platform for document management. I have raised a ticket to MS and they have acknowledged the bug but hasn't come back since for a resolution.  Hopefully a more elegant and streamline solution is provided asap.

  • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
    jcgonzalezmartin
    MVP
    Jan 09, 2019
    Best you can do here is to open a support ticket...if this was working until now and nothing has changed in the site, it might happen Microosft has updated the WebParts and the update is causing this

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