Permissions Management

Site collection administrators, site owners or other users that can manage permissions in SharePoint also have the power to limit access to the CopyMove functionality. However, not before CopyMove has been configured to use permissions as described in the sections Global Settings and Site Collection Settings. Otherwise the CopyMove buttons are available to anyone with access to the SharePoint sites where the CopyMove site collection feature is enabled. CopyMove will of course always respect regular SharePoint permissions in terms of sufficient privileges to view, add and delete items in lists.

Users and groups with the Full Control permission level will always have access to CopyMove in site collections where the CopyMove feature is activated. But other users and groups will need to be granted permission  to one of the following CopyMove permission levels:

The following screen shot shows the available permission levels in a vanilla SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployment with CopyMove 2010 installed, activated and configured for use of custom permission levels.

Important note: Do not try and edit the CopyMove permission levels as they use a special permissions mask that can not be specified through the standard Edit Permission Level page in SharePoint. You may, however, delete them when needed. They are added by CopyMove again when administrators configure the product to limit availability by permissions.

To grant permissions, manage permissions as usual in SharePoint and select the users or groups for which to change the permissions as shown in the screen shot below.

Click the Edit User Permissions button to edit the permissions for the selected users and groups. This opens the standard SharePoint permissions dialog as illustrated by this screen shot:

Check the appropriate permissions and click the OK button to apply the change. It may take up to one minute for CopyMove to pick up the new permissions and apply them to the CopyMove buttons in the ribbon.