One of the most advantageous features of SharePoint is the capacity to empower users, allowing greater generation of propositional knowledge, alleviating several IT support requirements, etc. However, empowering users with content and communication control unsurprisingly incorporates maintenance of security attributes associated with content and that contents storage instruments.

This came up at a client I was at, where they really, really wanted an extraordinarily unpretentious way to both show a exceedingly simple summary of existing site security, supplemented with only the most basic actions. So trying to keep the amount of controls being used in the WebPart under 6, we incorporated four fundamental event bound controls, and two dedicated to displaying information. So we could have context when discussing the product, we called it SimpleSecurity for reasons that don’t require explanation.

So, keeping the WebPart as nominal as possible, the below illustrates the process:

It’s pretty self-explanatory, but the gist of it is the WebPart sits somewhere on the site since it is going to use the current web context. When the user first adds the WebPrart to the page, if the required security groups don’t exist, they are created by the WebPart. Default grouping conventions being limited in SharePoint imply that abstracting this layer was desirable. Once existing, they are added into two list box controls that display the users available for actions, and the users that already have had actions applied to them. Using a simple movement process between those list boxes, the represented actions are executed.

I guess it’s kinda easier to show in screen shots, so here are some really simple examples:

In The Gallery

Adding the SimpleSecurity WebPart to the Page

Auto-Creating the Required Groups

Groups Created, Start Doing Stuff

Adding a Reader, Contributor, and Administrator

Download the WSP here. All the images etc. are all bundled into the cabinet as well.

Happy Labor Day!

Article Or Research Filed Under SharePoint Security| SharePoint Software.

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3 Comments »

1. 

   Cool WebPart! It does simplify security a lot, I hope something like this will be built-in to SharePoint 2010…

   Comment by John Fortnership — September 8, 2009 @ 10:08 am

2. 

   Testing this internally, it is kind of nice. There are three suggestions I have though.

   1) Make it so in the WebPart properties you can specify an SPGroup, rather than relying on administrative rights.
   2) Make it so that the group creation is just a button, not when the WebPart first loads.
   3) Make it so you can toggle the user site collection lookup to whatever you want. Like AllUsers or Site.Users.

   Comment by James Forker — September 8, 2009 @ 10:11 am

3. 

   This is an excellent WebPart. Thanks!

   Comment by Steve Christopherson — September 8, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

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