Re: Hiding Explorer View

The problem is, the lowest set of permissions (view Only)in this system
allows the ability to open in explorer view. I suggest you test this on your
own. Besides the fact this would be no use anyway in a forms library where
we want people to be able to submit forms and just not see other peoples
forms. We can hide explorer view, we can create filtered views so people
only see thier own submitted forms, but you can NOT take away the ability to
open in explorer view unless you take away the entire toolbar. Or make the
tool bar not a webpart by opening the page in Sharepoint Designer and
converting the form library webpart to XSLT Dataview and then remove the
actual actions button, of course doing this makes it no longer a webpart and
futher updates to the form library from InfoPath will break it this way, so
you would have to leave it like this without change.

My work around has been to create an entire other webpart that is a view of
the forms library that does not include the toolbar that has the actions menu
and controlled view access to this by Audience membership. This however is a
giant band-aid and still does not correct the fact that MS has overlooked a
huge blunder in security by allowing anyont that can access site the ability
to open a library in explorer if using the out of the box webparts and
provided toolbars on those webparts.

"galvin.paul@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

On Dec 4, 3:03 pm, Shon Miles <ShonMi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
It is actually not Explorer view, it is the option to Open in Windows
Explorer. I can hide Explorer view. As I pointed out, what good does it do
to hide explorer view, if a user still can simply click Actions open in
Windows Explorer?

You explain how I can enforce security on that and I will gladly test it out.



"galvin.p...@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
On Dec 3, 3:06 pm, Shon Miles <ShonMi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
We have several form libraries we have created that we need explorer view
hidden/removed for security purposes. I know how to delete the view fromt he
library settings, but this is realy pointless when a user can simply click on
the actions button in te library toolbar and choose open in explorer view as
one of the actions?

How can I remove all options to open a library in explorer view?

It seems like you should be looking to use out of the box security for
something like this, not discriminating against the poor explorer
view :)

Have you run into a roadblock using security?

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I don't know your specific security requirements, but assuming that
you have group of users called "Secured Doc Lib Users" do something
like:

1. Break inheritence to the doc lib (settings -> permissions for this
document library, actions -> edit permissions)
2. Remove the permissions for everyone.
3. Add the "Secured Doc Lib Users" group.
4. Give that group an appropriate permission level (such as "Viewer").

At this point, only the site collection admin and members of that
group should have access

--Paul Galvin @ http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com

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