HiSorry if this is a bit basic, sharepoint is all new to me!I nned to know how to setup the permissions within sharepoint so that a load of users can add items to a list but can only see their own entries, not other peoples. What would be the best way to achieve this?I could setup a different list for each person but cant see how to lock down the list so that ONLY that person can contribute and read the items in that list, it looks to me like I will need to generate a different group for each user and add them to that group, then restrict access to the list based on that group. Is that the only way to go here?Thnaks

>I could setup a different list for each person but cant see how to lock down the list so that ONLY that person can contribute and >read the items in that list, it looks to me like I will need to generate a different group for each user and add them to that >group, then restrict access to the list based on that group. Note that if this is the way you want to solve this then you are not forced to specify that a group has access rights to the list, you could specify that a particular user can access the list. There's no need to put users in a group where it makes no sense (as in this case).The first question - if there is a way to have a reader only be able to see his own entries I'll leave to someone else. You can specify for certain kinds of lists that only a user can *edit* his own items via the UI. I have the feeling that to get what you want without taking the one list per person approach (or one folder per person which is similar) you will need programming.But wait for someone else to come in on that.WSS FAQ sites: WSS 2.0: http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007: http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com Total list of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Books (including foreign language titles) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

The way that I've approached this in the past is to break permission inheritance for the list and elevate the visitor group to contributor. Then in the Advanced Settings section you can set the following Item Level Permissions.Read access - Only their ownEdit access - Only their own or noneSince contributors can only see their own, you will need to give Full Control to anyone else that you want to be able to see all entries. SharePoint Developer | Administrator | Evangelist -- Twitter - https://twitter.com/next_connect

Mike,Thanks, it sounds like that will work. I'll give it a go. One minor problem I can forsee though is that the list items are going to be added to the list by a third party system posting (via web service) or emailing the data to this SharePoint list (somehow, one for me to look into tomorrow!) so to get this separation I will need to get this automated data import to know what account to add the data in under, hey ho more reading material to trawl through I guess.

Heyyy, thanks for this, helped me with a list. Is there an equivalent for document libraries?