{"id":7938,"date":"2016-12-28T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/brainlitter\/?p=7938"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T18:47:32","slug":"add-document-access-denied-content-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2016\/12\/28\/add-document-access-denied-content-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Document, Access Denied and the Content Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>WHAT<\/h2>\n<p>Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today.\u00a0 Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn&#8217;t upload documents to a document library. The system page would give an &#8220;Access Denied&#8221; response when choosing &#8220;Add Document&#8221;.\u00a0 While Publishing was on and was my first suspicion, the user had access to site pages via specialized permissions.\u00a0 Granting Site Collection Privileges did allow the user to upload but there was no way I was leaving all users with that permission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Access-Denied-Add-Document.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7939\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Access-Denied-Add-Document.png?resize=300%2C151\" alt=\"Access Denied Add Document in SharePoint\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Access-Denied-Add-Document.png?resize=300%2C151&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Access-Denied-Add-Document.png?resize=768%2C387&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Access-Denied-Add-Document.png?w=998&amp;ssl=1 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>SO WHAT<\/h2>\n<p>Digging deeper via the Google for some clues, I saw some comments regarding this problem occurring when the &#8220;Content Organizer&#8221; feature has been activated on a Web (Site).\u00a0 Sure enough, it had. And the &#8220;Drop Off Library&#8221; was 5 months old (turns out that is roughly when the problem began, that&#8217;s how long this client lived with the issue before asking for help (!!??).<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, lots of ULS logging didn&#8217;t give me many clues because nothing was actually wrong.\u00a0 The system was doing what it was supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7940\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png?resize=300%2C15\" alt=\"Content Organizer - Site Features\" width=\"300\" height=\"15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png?resize=300%2C15&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png?resize=1024%2C52&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png?resize=768%2C39&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Content-Organizer.png?w=1062&amp;ssl=1 1062w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>NOW WHAT<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of the advice out there was to deactivate the Content Organizer feature.\u00a0 However, while that is probably the solution for this client (it appears someone turned it on to check it out \u2026 um, that&#8217;s what a Sandbox is for, not your production site collection\u2026), I wanted an answer in case they wished to keep it activated.<\/p>\n<p>My base sense was that permissions were missing somewhere, still.\u00a0 It perplexed me that it was impacting a system page like upload.aspx but now that I knew the possibility that the Content Organizer was the source problem (when used, it intercepts uploads to be filed automatically by known\/defined metadata), I decided to look at the &#8220;Unique Permissions&#8221; summary page that exists at <strong>\/_layouts\/uniqperm.aspx<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Drop-Off-Library-with-Unique-Permissions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7941\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Drop-Off-Library-with-Unique-Permissions.png?resize=300%2C247\" alt=\"Drop Off Library with Unique Permissions\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Drop-Off-Library-with-Unique-Permissions.png?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/12\/Drop-Off-Library-with-Unique-Permissions.png?w=523&amp;ssl=1 523w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this case, I simply gave rights for everyone that needed to contribute, to the Drop Off Library and the problem immediately stopped.\u00a0 I still plan on speaking to the customer about the Content Organizer Feature but this was the core problem and ultimately allowed me to give them two options in approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today.\u00a0 Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn&#8217;t upload documents to a document library. 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