SharePoint Online Custom Permissions - Edit but no Design

Question

Hello,

I am trying to add a custom permission level to a SharePoint Online Site. The desired results would allow the visitor to add, edit, delete documents and folders but NOT be able to change any of the site design features.

It appears from this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/understanding-permission-levels that all permission levels that allow editing documents in a document library or site also give them design permission.

Am I missing something here? We want to give a large group of people access to a site but we don't want them changing how the site looks.

Thank you,
James

Answer 1

@james hickey ,

From your description, the default Contribute permission level will meet your requirement, no need to create custom permission level.

This permission level enables users to view, add, update, and delete list items and documents and has no permission to change how the site looks.

Note, default Visitors group has the default Read permission level, we need to create a new group and grant Contribute permission on it.

If this is not feasible for you, please feel free to reply.

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Answer 2

@james hickey ,

This is because the "Edit items" list permission could edit pages in site pages library.

For your requirement, we can go to the site pages library> library settings>Permissions for this document library>Stop Inheriting Permissions from the site and edit users(who have contribute permission level) to Read permission level, in this way, they will not able to edit pages in this library since they only have read permission for them.