Today is my first day in a new job, and they use Sharepoint, which I never, ever used before. Question...one user does not have the ability to "add" a new project in his window. I checked his credentials against someone else in the company that has the ability to add a new project, both authentications are the same, (login credentials). Now, sharepoint credentials,....I have not the first clue on where to look, I've been poking around for the last hour....right now the main issue this man has is not being able to create a new project within Sharepoint. How do I "add" an add button on the browser, also, his sharepoint homepage looks a little different than the other user. The working users list box shows a few choices including the add feature, and runs horizontially. The user's whose client doesn't work, has a drop down box, not showing an "add" feature. How do I allow or change it so this user has the ability to Add a project? Thanks!!!! Nancy

Hey Nancy, From your description, it seems to me that the user in question does not have the same SharePoint permissions as the other user. If this user is supposed to have the same permissions, you can elevate their permissions by adding them to the Owners group of the site as follows: From the home page of the target site, click "Site Actions" in the top right hand side of the site. On the dropdown menu, click "Site Settings". Under the Users and Permissions section, click "People and Groups". On the left, under Groups, click "... Owners". Click "New". Add the target user and click "OK". Your user should now have the ability to do anything on that site. I trust that answers your question... Thanks C http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

Hello Nancy and Cornelius, There may be the case that your sharepoint environment may not using the owners group; also it may not be possible to add all users to owners group due to security reasons on site. Hence I would suggest you to check for any of his colleague who probably has the same permissions on that site (maybe from his dept), and confirm with him that this functionality is working for him(Add item) Then go to list/library settings by clicking on "Settings" option (not "site settings" but list/library "settings" at the centre) Then go to "Permissions for this list/library" and check the permissions of his colleague. Then apply same for the account of person in questions (of course you check with your business owner who might have intentionally kept the READ only" permissions for this user on that perticular library) Hope this helps, Regards, Rohan

I checked his credentials against someone else in the company that has the ability to add a new project, both authentications are the same, (login credentials). Do you mean that both user login SharePoint with the same account? The “Welcome username” at the upper right corner of SharePoint screen looks the same? And the user see different SharePoint page content? They are on two different client computer, aren’t they? Please check if they both have the same Office component installed on the computer. Many SharePoint function depend on the Office Client integration feature which are ActiveX controls installed on the client by Office. Please read http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2007/03/26/searching-the-visible-moss-2007-code-for-activex-references.aspx for reference. And can you be more specific about "add a new project"? Do you use MS Project or Project Server? Is the project a list item or a list or a site in your senario? Gu Yuming TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com