Restrict users by deleting other users files in Document Library WSS 3.0
I want to setup a document libraries for. The goal is to allow a user to delete their own work but not be able to delete anyone else's. Is there a way to accomplish this with permission groups or another way toapproach the problem? Thanks, Kamal Nag
March 19th, 2010 2:55pm

When using Major and Minor versioning there is a setting that allows you to restrict the library so that minor version documents can only be edited by people with approval authority and the original author. I don't know if this keeps them from deleting documents also, but I assume it would. That's about as close as you will get to what you are asking for without setting permissions on each document manually, which I don't recommend because it is difficult to maintain. The only way I can see to do this cleanly would be to write an event receiver that would intercept the ItemDeleting event and cancel the deletion if the current user doesn't match the original author. It would be a fairly easy event receiver to write and could be used in as many or as few document libraries as you would like. But it would require custom programming.Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP
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March 19th, 2010 3:08pm

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