SharePoint User Group UK

Hi there,

I was wondering what is the best way to be able to hide columns based on permissons or if this is even possible? What we need is based on the following:

"We are using the free contacts management template from microsoft but we want to be able to have additional columns for financial data associated with individual records. We only want these columns to be displayed to certain users e.g. Finance department whereas all other staff will only be able to see the basic contact information. We also want the ability to be able to add records based on these permissions too."

What is the best way to handle this? Is it possible to hide columns based on permissions or do I need to have a look at having seperate web parts (Is it the content query web part that could do this?). Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.

Hi there, creating custom web parts is one solution, but if you want to reduce your develpoment time and use almost the out of the box stuff and have access to sharepoint designer, take a look at this :

http://blog.gemsolution.co.uk/2008/07/16/hiding-a-column-based-on-security-permissions/

There's also an add in product called Sharepoint Boost (http://www.sharepointboost.com/permissionboost.html) but is will set yuo back more the SPD.

Hope this helps get you on your way :)

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Andrew Carter
.Net & SharePoint

Thanks for that. Good article!

Thansk. Do you know the timeframe of when this is supposed to be live? Cheers

Supposed to be out by end of Aug with the full sorce code. If you happy to deploy a feature with out the source code, you may also look into this.
http://www.codeplex.com/SPListDisplaySetting

Regards,

Kapila