1. Introduction
2. Manage Item Permissions
   • 2.1. Activation
   • 2.2. Bulk Add Permissions
   • 2.3. Bulk Remove Permissions
   • 2.4. Bulk Inherit Permissions

1. Introduction

Item Permission Batch allows administrators to bulk manage item permissions, including adding and removing user permissions as well as inheriting permissions from list.

It also enables administrators to set conditions to filter which items will be affected.

Note: Item Permission Batch will disable Permission Workflow in the current list.

2. Manage Item Permissions

2.1 Activation

After you have successfully installed and deployed our solution in your SharePoint environment, go to Site Settings – Site Collection Features and locate the Item Permission Batch feature. To activate it click the Activate button.

Note: SharePoint Item Permission Batch will be automatically activated, by default, if you installed this product using the setup.exe application.

Once the product feature is activated, Bulk Add Permissions, Bulk Remove Permissions and Bulk Inherit Permissions will be added to the SharePoint Ribbon.

2.2 Bulk Add Permissions

1. Enter a list or library and select the items which you want to manage permissions. Click Bulk Add Permissions on the ribbon; you will enter the settings page.

2. In the Include Users section, specify the users which you want to assign permissions.

Here, we will assign permissions for one user column. Click Select more users to expand the settings part and select Account Name in the Choose User/Group Columns section as follows:

You can assign permissions to specified users or groups by entering the names of the users or groups in the Enter users/groups section.

Or you can assign permissions to user columns from another list by selecting user columns. Conditions can be defined to filter users.

3. In the Permission Settings section, select the permission levels which you want to assign to users. These permission levels are pulled from the Site Collection permission settings.

You can manage specified items permissions which are filtered by conditions.

Once you have configured the above settings, you can click the OK button. You will see the following screen:

4. Click Manage Permissions for any one item. You will notice that permissions have been assigned to the user column.

2.3 Bulk Remove Permissions

1. Enter a list or library and select the items which you want to remove permissions. Click Bulk Remove Permissions on the ribbon; you will enter the settings page.

2. In Include Users -> Enter users/groups section, enter the user or group names in the box.

Note: the input of multiple users is allowed.

3. In the Permission Settings section, select the permission levels which you want to remove from the specified users.

Click OK.

4. After the changes take effect, enter the permission settings page from any one item and you will find the user’s specified permissions have been removed.

2.4 Bulk Inherit Permissions

This function provides the administrator the ability to bulk inherit permission settings from list for selected items.

1. In the list, select the items which you want to inherit permissions.

2. Click Bulk Inherit Permissions on the ribbon and a pop-up will be displayed as follows:

This function will cause custom permission settings to be lost for the selected items. Click OK to confirm and inherit the permission settings from list.

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Languages Supported: English, Japanese, German

System Requirements

For SharePoint 2013:

Operating System:	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter X64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Server:	SharePoint Release: - Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 - Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8/9/10 Mozilla Firefox supported Google Chrome supported

For SharePoint 2010:

Operating System:	Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Server:	SharePoint Release: - Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 or Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 - Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or greater is recommended for Advanced admin features Mozilla Firefox supported Google Chrome Supported Mozilla Firefox supported

Release Notes

4.4.509.1 May 10th, 2013	New Feature: - Company brand updated.
4.2.114.4 Jan 15th, 2013	New Feature: - Support SharePoint 2013
4.1.1228.3 Dec 29th, 2012	New Feature - Assign permission for the selected items - More powerful conditions - Add ribbon entrance
3.3.702.0 Jul 2th, 2012	Bug fixed: - Column/View Permission settings do not work on the domain group when the permissions are set on the SharePoint group which contains the domain group.
3.3.427.0 Apr 27th, 2012	New Feature: - Support [Me] field in condition for Column/View Permission. Bug Fixed: - Contents in Multiple line of text column with "Append Changes to Existing Text" enabled cannot be saved in some situations. - JavaScript error occurs in New/Edit Item Form when hidden/read-only multiple line of text column with "Enhanced rich text" enabled. - JavaScript error occurs in New/Edit Item Form when hidden/read-only first column.
3.2.327.0 Mar 28th, 2012	Bug fixed: - Access denied occurs when user tries to enter the permission part which contains external list. - Conditions for external list part does not work.
3.1.1227.1 Dec 28th, 2011	New Features: - Support Japanese. - Support German.
3.0.1215.0 Dec 21st, 2011	New Feature: - Support basic and advanced condition settings.
2.3.1215 Dec 16th, 2010	New Feature: - Support German.
2.2.811.0 Aug 9th, 2010	New Feature: - Announced compatibility with SharePoint 2010.
2.1.715.0 Jul 15th, 2010	New Feature: - Server license added.
2.1.528.0 Jun 7th, 2010	Bugs fixed:
2.0.401.2 Apr 2nd, 2010	New Feature: - Offer conditions to determine the users and user groups that will be assigned custom permission settings.
1.17.1209.0 Dec 15th, 2009	SharePoint Permissions Boost component upgraded.
1.16.916.0 Sep 16th, 2009	Bug Fixed: - A column might be invisible to all the users though it was supposed to be invisible only to certain person.
1.16.820.0 Aug 21st, 2009	Licensing module upgraded.
1.15.428.2 Apr 28th, 2009	New Feature: - Add items’ URLs to certain fields. Bug Fixed: - Removed groups from site user count.
1.12.1226.1 Dec 26th, 2008	New Feature: - Fully support customized forms.
1.11.1204.0 Dec 5th, 2008	New Feature: - Availability of farm license.
1.10.1125.0 Nov 25th, 2008	Bug Fixed: - User fields could not be assigned permission in some cases.
1.9.1121.5 Nov 21st, 2008	Bugs Fixed: - Some views were hidden though they should be visible in those cases; - Improve performance for batch permission settings.
1.8.1104.0 Nov 4th, 2008	Bug Fixed: - Resolved the error happened when a view had an empty title.
1.8.1031.1 Oct 31st, 2008	New Feature: - Support column permission for anonymous;
1.7.0.3787 Oct 15th, 2008	New Feature: - Support assigning column permissions to user/group columns in a list. Bugs Fixed: - Resolved the error happened when users logging in as anonymous; - User lists were too long and no new line when assigning permissions to many users.
1.6.0.3709 Oct 10th, 2008	New Feature: - Allow assigning column permissions to all users except specified ones. Bug Fixed: - Fixed errors in page title and description.
1.5.3.0 Aug 18th, 2008	Bug Fixed: - Resolved the errors happened when inserting an image into a new item, but failing to save the new item.
1.1.0.0 Jul 2nd, 2008	Initial Release