Contributor Settings in SharePoint Designer

Friday, June 2, 2006

Office2007 SharePoint

When you install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), out-of-the box the Contributor Settings will be enabled on your site(s). You will notice this in the SharePoint Designer task pane. By default your account will (probably?) be in the Content Authors group, wich may “restrict the use of some features” as the task pane mentions.

You can verify the permissions when you click the View your Contributor Settings, as you can see the SharePoint permissions (workflow, templates, etc) are disabled. Even worse, it seems that you can’t enable them!

To customize the Contributor Settings to your needs, you need to go to the Site menu and choose Contributor Settings. If you want to get rid of all the Contributor Settings, just click the Disable Contributor Settings button.

5 Comments

contributor settings are enabled on th sharepoint designer and not on the MOSS 2007 sites.

madhur - Wednesday, June 7, 2006 6:31:09 AM

Cool Posting.......

Vinod - Friday, June 9, 2006 6:11:54 PM

Thanks! Useful tip.

Thierry - Monday, June 19, 2006 2:09:00 PM

Anyone have any idea if there is an equivalence to the wdfopensite XML tag that WSS v.2 provides for preventing the use of FrontPage 2003 on WSS sites?

Or is this solved entirely by Master Pages? How can you prevent users from editting it?

Dan - Friday, July 7, 2006 9:57:33 PM

I have disabled the contributor setting, but i still get the access denied error message, when i try to copy and paste a pre-existing masterpage.....

Muru - Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:52:12 PM

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