I have a love/hate relationship with SharePoint. Often the things that should be really simple, just aren’t. Take the “Item-level Permissions” option for instance. Every list appears to have this option (available via List Settings > Advanced Settings) except for document libraries. I’m sure the SharePoint Development Team at Microsoft have a very good reason for this…
Step forth PowerShell!
$web = Get-SPWeb http://mysharepointsite $list = $web.Lists[“A Document Library”] $list.ReadSecurity = 2 $list.WriteSecurity = 2 $list.Update() $web.Dispose()
The ReadSecurity value can be one of the following:
1 = “Read all items”
2 = “Read items that were created by the user”
The “Create and Edit access” option can also be set by specifiying a value for WriteSecurity.
1 = “Create and edit all items”
2 = “Create items and edit items that were created by the user”
4 = “None”