Hi all, First of all let me say that I have looked at posts on similar topics before posting my question and since they are not so recent I thought things might have changed... I have created an extremely basic test workflow (based on impersonation) to remove permissions from a newly created list item and reassign permissions only to the user who created the item. The thing is that the workflow is working with no issues...so my question is: is this too good to be true? I read in other posts about event handlers and other 'complex' (at least to me!) solutions and since I am not a SP developer I have to stay away from code... See the screen shot of my (one step!) workflow... I would really appreciate your help, Thank you, Deborah

Hi Deborah, >is this too good to be true? Yes, it is good if it does satisfy your requirement. If you don't need to break permission inheritance for user / group / some other complex things then so far so good.designer workflow supports to change only permission level for item but if you have requirement like: provide contribute permission for some users and Read permission for other users on same item then there is a limit in workflow so in such kind of scenario you need to got for code (event receiver etc). If you are writing code then you have more control on sharepoint so you can fulfill the business requirements. Let us know if you have any question Cheers, Hemendra-MCTS "Yesterday is just a memory,Tomorrow we may never see"

Hemendra has answered from a coder's perspective, I can approach from an admin view. What you're seeing is perfectly normal. As you well know, SPD gives you a code free solution; which means the actions / triggers available to you within workflow authoring have already been compiled. If the above meets your needs, perfect. If not, than as Hemendra also mentions, you'll start looking at using the APIs and code solutions. This looks like SPD 2010, so you might be aware that there are several workflow extensions on CodePlex that can be added to your SharePoint deployment.Steven Andrews | SharePoint Professional | http://www.twitter.com/backpackerd00d | https://baron72.wordpress.com/

Thank you very much for your reply Hemendra...For now my requirements are kind of simple so hopefully designer will be enough!

Hi Steven, thanks for your reply too and thanks a lot for the hint on CodePlex! I'll definitely have a look at it!