Hello, I am looking for a solution to my problem. What I have now: I have installed sharepoint services and made a new document content type with some custom columns. Then I have installed Dark Blue Duck scan enabler so I can scan pages and give them values. I give them values like: clientname, document-direction, document-type, date, ... These documents come under the pdf format in the clients library. Now what I want: I want to choose users that can only see documents of one specific type. (document-type). So they have no permission to see other documents. How do I give these permissions? I already have created some custom views that filter a document type. But I can't connect this view to a group of users. Can someone give me the correct way to solve this issue?

There's no built in way to do this, but there are some reasonably easy alternatives. You could write an event reciever that will fire every time a document is added or updated (in case you later change a document type), it will set the custom permissions according to rules you define. This would be the best option but would require .net code. You could also use SharePoint designer to create a workflow to do this. Again the workflow would run every time you add or update a document. It would also set custom permission based on the rules you define. There is no built in SharePoint Designer actions for changing permissions though so you would also need to download SPD Activities: http://spdactivities.codeplex.com/ (which is a good idea if you want to create SharePoint Deisgner workflows anyway).

Thank you for the reply :) I'm more of a networker and not much of a programmer so I don't see myself writing .net code. This is a project that I'm doing for a company while I'm still at school. (Should get my degree next month :) ) We are using WSS 3.0 here, so I don't know if SharePoint designer would work on it. But I will look in to that. I also found this 3th party addon for sharepoint that will let you give permissions to views: Sharepointboost SharePoint Column/View Permission http://www.sharepointboost.com/columnpermission.html That WOULD be THE perfect solution, but I can't get it to work :( I have installed it like it should, give the correct usergroup the permission to only 1 view. But that user can still see all the views..

SharePoint Designer will work perfect with WSS 3.0. I'm not familiar with that particular add-on so can't be of any help there.

Hi, I agree with steven. and i don't think you can achieve it without coding. Hope it is helpful!Seven

Hi, Have a look at similar post (Creating a view in Sharepoint List that can be restricted to a group only): http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointcustomization/thread/9d9f8a35-f4da-495f-acf2-4c16cbfcb30c Hope this helps. Regards.