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Sharepoint online permissions inheritance subsites
Hi,
I do have a collection A with 3 groups (Read/contribute/owners ) on the collection.
I had create 3 subsites Inside the collection let's call them SubsiteA, SubsiteB and Subsite C.
The subsites inherited the permissions of the parent.
For the subsite B, I needed to have additionnal people as contributors.
In the subsite I did create a new group and give it the contribute role.
Unfortunately, I see that this group does have also the contribute permission to the parent and then also to subsite A and C also which I dont want because I will need different contributors per subsite.
I was assuming the permissions inheritance of a SharePoint site was only going down, not up.
Does it mean that I must stop inheriting the permissions and set them again on every subsite?
Thanks for your help
Now that you understand how inheritance works, you may want to reconsider your decision to create subsites in the site collection. Many of the new features in SPO, i.e, Office 365 Groups and the soon to be released Hub sites will work best with separate site collections that do not have any subsites.
There are many good reasons to have subsites, but there are also many benefits to having separate site collections. It can be confusing to have a new "site collection" that only has one site (and is not really a collection of anything), but that is just the nature of sharepoint architecture.
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Yes, unfortunately you have to break inheritence for each sub site, and set them for every sub site.
You can also create a parent sub site to break inheritence only on that site
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- Site A
- Site Z
- Site B
- site C
Good luck
- Thierry is correct...if you don't break inheritance for your subsites and you create new Groups, you are indeed creating them in the parent site so that's the reason why they also appear in the other subsites
Thanks Thierry and Juan Carlos. You confirmed my doubts.
I will stop inheriting before creating new groups.
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
Thierry is correct...if you don't break inheritance for your subsites and you create new Groups, you are indeed creating them in the parent site so that's the reason why they also appear in the other subsites
