WSS Error: “the control is not available because you do not have the correct permissions”
// March 31st, 2009 // Uncategorized
So i came across an interesting error today! I was using a people picker which was filtered to only use a particular sharepoint group! If I, as site collection administrator, accessed it, it worked fine and i was able to select a person. However for anyone else this did not work!
Solution:
Well, it worked out that all the users needed to be added to this list in order to get it working. I even tried to set the permission of the lists in the User permission List itself, gave them full control but still nothing.
So i eventually created another group from which i would use the people picker on, and added “domain/domain users” to it. I reconfigured the people column to use this list and hey presto, it worked!
Questions
Why would it do this, surely there shouldnt be any security around a specific column of a list (there are 3rd party features for this), i realise that yes, the user permission list has permission properties, but still, if i create a list with a people picker column, then surely i will control access to the list itself?
Hello!
I know this might be a stupid question as you have detailed all the steps you did, but could you be a bit more specific about what you actually did? Did you manage to get the filtered list working? I don’t really understand what you meant with: “created another group from which I would use the people picker on”. Do you mean you created another group with all the users in the domain in it and then reconfigured the people picker to use this group? But then it wouldn’t be filtered, would it?
Thanks in advance
Timo
Oh thank you – I have no idea how this happened to our list – none of the other lists behave this way, and this workaround has saved me from recreating the whole thing!!! THANKS From Florida!
I had this same problem and here is the solution..
This is due to the settings of the group you have specified in the “People Picket Column”
Browse to the group which you have the people picker set to, check the group settings
Who can view the membership of the group?
Group Members * Everyone
(check Everyone) now the error you had before of “the control is not available because you do not have the correct permissions” should be gone…..
It happens if you have group setting “Who can view member of this group” is set to “Group Members” just change that to “Everyone”.
I had the same issue, my problem was that I had created custom groups with custom permission levels and I had not given the ‘Browse User Information’ permission level. Once I gave this, I did not get this error again
Combo of Harish and the original solution worked perfectly. Thank you!
Tks for the answer, it worked fine for me!
Thnx, worked a treat! That was driving me nuts…
thank u . . worked perfectly