Sharepoint View question

[kkbigal]

We've recently had Sharepoint server installed at work and we're trying to get to grips with what it can and cannot do

In a document library, is there any way to specify different default views for different users? If not, is there any way to achieve the same effect, maybe through security settings or something?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ringo747]

We've recently had Sharepoint server installed at work and we're trying to get to grips with what it can and cannot do

In a document library, is there any way to specify different default views for different users? If not, is there any way to achieve the same effect, maybe through security settings or something?

Thanks in advance.

Could you set up an Active Directory group and just assign all privileges to that group for the document library?

For example, have all your admins in one group and then have a view for that group. All normal users in a AD group and then have a view for them?

I haven't used Sharepoint in anger yet but have done some courses and all the user control side of things was tied in very closely with Active Directory.

 

[HTMLHugo]

what you can do is setup a default view for restricted (read Only) users. non restricted users could have permissions to create there own views but they would have to be done manually.

basically once you give people access to a list you give them access to all public views.

BTW welcome to hell sorry i meant the exciting and challenging world of sharepoint

 

[kkbigal]

Thanks for the suggestions chaps

The quickest and easiest solution I found was to create a web part page, add the document library to the page and then set the default view. I could then make this page publicly accessible and give our team access to the actual library with a different view.

However, all this turns out to have been rather fruitless because there are other things I need to make it do (like dynamic selection of users for workflow approvals) and I don't have access to SharePoint designer or any behind the scenes tweaking.

In the end, I've started developing a custom web app to do exactly what I want - more work but I guess that's the price of freedom