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Raul Garita
Brass Contributor
Mar 04, 2017

Looking for Unique permissions

Is there any feature on the CSOM API, or any other to check if an element (Site/Web/Folder) have child items with unique permission underneath it.   I dont want do a an expensive operation going de...
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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Mar 05, 2017

ListItems, Lists and Sites all inherit from SecurableObject which has a property "HasUniqueRoleAssignments". As far as I know the only way for you to check if any of the child items of a SecurableObject has unique permissions applied is to pick a parent (List or Site) and loop through its children and for each one of them check the property.

 

https://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/microsoft.sharepoint.client.securableobject.hasuniqueroleassignments.aspx

 

 

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    Raul Garita
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 05, 2017

    Thanks Paul, I'm not sure, if it goes to all the childs. But  I also found the following extension on the PnP-sites-core library. Ill check

     

     

    GetAllUniqueRoleAssignments

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Mar 05, 2017

      Raul Garita this function does: 

      Get all unique role assignments for a web object and all its descendents down to document or list item level.

       

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