Scenario/Problem:
Earlier in this chapter, you saw that to assign permissions to users or
groups, you can choose from a predefined list of permission levels,
such as Readers, Contributors, and Approvers. If you want to create a
permission level that differs from the existing permission levels, you
can create a custom permission level. For example, you might want to
create a permission level that enables users to view and delete items
or files but not edit them, or maybe you want to create a permission
level that allows users to view the site and be able to create subsites
but not edit items in the site.
Solution:
To create permission levels, open the site’s permissions management
page and click the Permission Levels button in the Manage section of
the ribbon (refer to Figure 1).
Note
If you are working on a subsite, by default
the permission levels are inherited from the parent site. Although you
can still edit them (an action that breaks the inheritance), you should
make sure this is what you actually want to do. If you want to make
sure you are editing the permission levels in the top site, use the
Manage Parent option in the Inheritance section of the Edit ribbon of
the permission management page to get to the parent site’s permissions
management page.
On the Permission Levels page, you can see and manage all the existing permission levels (see Figure 1).
FIGURE 1 The Permission Levels page.
To create a new
permission level, click the Add a Permission Level button on the
toolbar. The Add a Permission Level page opens (see Figure 2).
On this page, you can define the name for the new permission level and
what permissions set it should include. Simply select the permissions
you want the permission level to include and click the Create button at
the bottom of the screen.
FIGURE 2 Creating a new permission level that allows users to edit but not delete.
