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SharePoint 2010: Roles and Permissions

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This article lists out out of the box SharePoint roles and permissions associated

Table below Lists out of the box roles in SharePoint

Role

Permission Level
 Members  Contribute
 Owners  Full Control
 Visitors  Read            
 Viewers  View Only

Table below describes the permissions associated with each permission level and dependent permissions. Hopefully this will help as you plan roles for your site users

List Permissions:

Permission  Description Dependant Permissions   Full Control Design   Contribute  Read  Limited Access  View Only
 Manage Lists  Create and delete lists, add or remove columns in a list, and add or remove public views of a list. View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

        
 Override Checkout Discard or check in a document which is checked out to another user.   View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

      
 Add Items  Add items to lists, add documents to document libraries, and add Web discussion comments.  View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

      
 Edit Items  Edit items in lists, edit documents in document libraries, edit Web discussion comments in documents, and customize Web Part Pages in document libraries.  View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

      
 Delete Items  Delete items from a list, documents from a document library, and Web discussion comments in documents.  View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

      
 View Items  View items in lists, documents in document libraries, and Web discussion comments.  View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

 x

  

 x
 Approve Items  Approve a minor version of a list item or document.  Edit Items, View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 

      
 Open Items  View the source of documents with server-side file handlers.  View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

 x

    
 View Versions  View past versions of a list item or document.  View Items, Open Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

 x

  

 x
 Delete Versions  Delete past versions of a list item or document.  View Items, View Versions, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

      
 Create Alerts  Create e-mail alerts.      View Items, View Pages, Open

 x

 x

 x

 x

  

 x
 View Application Pages  View Forms, Views, and Application Pages. Enumerate Lists  Open