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Upload without view
- Many thanks, John and Dean. I'll look into these.
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- There's a 3 click answer - go to library settings and set it so that users can only see items that THEY create. The caveat is that for people on your side to see everything, they will need to have higher level permissions, like designer or something. Super easy, doesn't require any special rules or training. And can be easily undone by reversing the setting.
- Thanks, Rachel. I found these under Advanced Settings, and I'll do some testing.
KenStewart There are several options as colleagues discussed here.
If you would like to create a separate SharePoint site and upload documents that can be shared
or even you can create a separate document library and stop inheriting permissions and make item level permission and use this as your repository .
There is other option too but in such case you will not use Document Library but you will use List and attach document to list and then from Advanced settings you can specify the permission as in this screenshot.
You can also create flow and control permissions from it.
- Many thanks, John and Dean. I'll look into these.
- We have a DropOff library in SharePoint and a rule can be written in to move the uploaded document to desired library. Alternatively, we can create view with filter set as created by is equal [ME] to avoid users to see other’s content.
- I tried most of these solutions and ended up using the approach first suggested by Nitesh. I used Flow to move the file and also generate a customized email notification. Many thanks to all.
- That's great, Nitesh. I'm new to SharePoint. Can you describe these in more detail or point me to a source of information? Thanks very much for your response.
KenStewartThe DropOff library is a feature that is associated with the Content Organizer, see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Configure-the-Content-Organizer-to-route-documents-B0875658-69BC-4F48-ADDB-E3C5F01F2D9A for some instructions.
The one key trick to making this work is to enable external sharing for the site so that all of the guests have access.
