Why parent's permissions is showing for broken child in SharePoint online?

Question

I wanted to learn about how Permissions are stored and how Graph API works with share point online and how Graph retrieving the information.

While looking through Permissions, I got something messy. That is, I broken the inheritance for a child item(folder) from parent(list/lib). then added direct access to one user for the child item.

After that I looking to the permissions of parent(list) and broken inherited child were same. I don't know what about this.

Can any one plz help me out?

PermissionsForParent(List).txt

PermissionsOfChild(Folder).txt

Above text files contains retrieved Permissions information about Parent and Child.

Note : I have broken inheritance for child and deleted one group permissions and added one Direct access permissions for a user.

Please anyone explain what about this and If Possible please explain the content in the text file

Answer 1

Currently using Graph API, you could get site permission, fetching permissions for list or library is not supported.

If list permission inherits permissions from site, you could get permissions for a site instead of a list.

You could propose this feature request for list permissions in the feedback portal.

As a workaround, I suggest you use PowerShell to get permissions for a list and list items.

Reference:

https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2019/02/sharepoint-online-pnp-powershell-to-export-document-library-permissions.html

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