A SharePoint Permission Levels are group of permissions that can be granted to users or SharePoint groups so that they can perform specific actions on securable objects such as a site, library, list, folder, item, or document on your site. Permission levels allow you to group permissions and apply them to users and SharePoint groups on various sites in your SharePoint.
When you create a SharePoint site, there are five permission levels provided by default:
When you create a SharePoint site, there are five permission levels provided by default:
- Full Control: allows users or groups full control over a site. Full Control is the least restrictive permission level. You can not modify or remove this permission level.
- Design: allows users or groups to view, add, update, delete, approve, and customize lists, libraries, and pages on your site, including themes and style sheets.
- Contribute: allows users or groups to view, add, update, and delete previously created list items and document libraries.
- Read: allows users or groups to read pages on the site including the resource libraries. Read is the most restrictive permission level.
- Limited Access: is a permission level that is automatically assigned to a user or group and therefore cannot be directly assigned by the administrator. It is used when you assign the users or groups to a child object of a parent object to which they do not have access. You can not modify or remove this permission level.
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