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Avner Kashtan's Frustrations and Exultations

No Per-item permissions in WSSv3's Web Services?!

How did I miss this until now? It's great that WSSv3 and MOSS give us granular permissions, and it's great that I can access those permissions via an SPListItem's RoleAssignments collection - but is there really no way of getting this information in a web service?

The Permissions web service remains unchanged from WSSv2, GetPermissionCollection() receiving a List GUID and returning permissions for that list. Nothing for specific documents. Interestingly enough, the method also receives an objectType string, which could ostensibly allow us to pass other types of objects and get permissions data for them - but this apparently never made the cut for WSSv3 RTM.

This, for me, is a major roadblock. I am limited to accessing the built-in web-services only. I don't have access to the Sharepoint server(s), and can't write my own web-services to expose this data via the object model.

Has anyone ran into this and found a more imaginative workaround for this really painful oversight?

Posted: Jul 02 2007, 05:52 PM by Avner Kashtan | with 8 comment(s)
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Miscellaneous Debris said:

I downloaded the new Sharepoint 2007 SDK today, published last week though it's dated from April 2007

# July 18, 2007 4:57 AM

Miscellaneous Debris said:

I downloaded the new Sharepoint 2007 SDK today, published last week though it's dated from April 2007.

# July 18, 2007 4:57 AM

Miscellaneous Debris said:

Working with the Web Services in WSSv2 and v3 is an exercise in sheer frustration. I've written before

# September 6, 2007 9:18 AM

Miscellaneous Debris said:

Working with the Web Services in WSSv2 and v3 is an exercise in sheer frustration. I've written before

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