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permission level problem for attachment
Hi everyone, I'm a new sharepoint user. I made a list in my site and want other users in my company can only add new items but not update or delete them.I changed the default "contribute" permission level by unclicking "add items" and "edit item". It works fine except that other users do not have the permission to upload attachment when adding items. Can you offer some help?
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A little 'off topic' - but read Gregs blog
https://sharepointmaven.com/why-you-should-never-use-sharepoint-lists-for-storing-files-and-attachments/淳嘉 銭 you should never change the default permission levels in SharePoint but you can create a new permission level. you can use "copy permissions Level" when clicking on the default permission level then check the permissions that you need for the user. In your case
"Add Items - Add items to lists and add documents to document libraries."
"Edit Items - Edit items in lists, edit documents in document libraries, and customize Web Part Pages in document libraries."
You can assign this custom permission level a group and then add all users to this group. Using this approach you can add the group to the list which uses the custom permissions level.
Sorry,some typing mistakes. First, I didn't change the default setting, the changes I made are all in the copy of the default. Second, the button I unclicked was "edit items" and "delete items".
Now users can add items to the list, but cannot add a item with an attachment.
I want to make them also able to add items with attachment.
If you need users to add attachments to list item then you need both "Add Items" and "Edit Items" in the permission level. If you just need just to add items without attachments then "Add Items" is sufficient.
- spucelik
Microsoft
I would suggest creating a new permission role allowing users to add items to the list/library.
They must be able to "add items" in order to add items...
