SharePoint Permission Boost 1.5.2.0 is a Office Suite product from sharepointboost.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, SharePoint Permission Boost is a SharePoint workflow template designed for WSS3.0/SharePoint2007. It provides additional features based on and beyond the default SharePoint permission mechanism. These features include:
* Assign permissions to all items separated from list permission settings. There are times when you need to control permissions to all items but not want to inherit permissions from parent list permission settings. SharePoint Permission Boost Workflow can solve this problem instead of manually setting permissions to each item. With it, permission settings will be automatically applied to each item when this item is created or modified;
* Assign ITEM-RELATED users or groups permissions to each item. For instance, in a task list, you want the assignee of one task, but not some specified users or groups, to have read permission to this task. Since each task item has its own assignee, it will be difficult if you set read permission to each item when assignee is appointed or changed. SharePoint Permission Boost Workflow brings in a concept named "ITEM-RELATED users or groups", which actually means user or group columns in a list, to solve this problem. Configured in the workflow association page, user or group columns, which represent "ITEM-RELATED users or groups", are assigned permissions to all items. The workflow is running in background; when item is created or modified, the "ITEM-RELATED" users or groups will be assigned permissions to the item.
* Assign users or groups read/edit permissions to list columns. SharePoint does not define column permissions by default, but SharePoint Permission Boost controls column permissions by overwriting some control templates. It provides following functions:
If user has no read permission to some column,
+ The contents of this column will be hidden to him(her) in item display form or edit form;
+ List views which contain this column are invisible to him and cannot be selected by him in this View Select Menu.
If user has no edit permission to some column,
+ The contents of this column will be read-only to him(her) in item edit form;
+ List views which contain this column cannot be switched to datasheet view or be edited in MS Access (the menu items in Actions Menu will hide to him (her)).
Permission Control is always an important aspect in any Management Information System or Office Automatic System. SharePoint provide a flexible permission mechanism, but the Out-Of-Box functions cannot meet the needs of different kinds of organizations. To many organizations, permission control is better achieved by rule than operation. This means that if rule is defined, it will be automatically applied to all related information (including exist and future-added information). For instance, a permission rule is that approver to a document has approve permission to this document. It implies that the approve permission will be automatically assigned to other user if approver to the document is modified. We implement this rule mechanism by workflow. SharePoint Permission Boost Workflow can automatically change permissions to item when item is created or modified.
Column permission in SharePoint is highly expected by many IT managers and developers, because column permission provides another permission control dimension. SharePoint2007 don't provide column permission mechanism directly, but we can implement column permission in representation layer by overwrite default control templates. Even if you can bypass this way through API invoking, it will be useful to those who eagerly need column permission. The license of this office software is Free Trial Software, the price is $499, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of SharePoint Permission Boost, you can buy this office software.