Separating Document Libraries By Group

Question

Hi so I'm trying to test part of SharePoint by creating two custom groups, Group 1 and Group 2, and having them be able to access the site, except one document library, Document Library 1 and Document Library 2 respectively. I'm running into issues limiting the groups access to the libraries and was wondering if anybody had any ideas. I already have the 2 groups made, and have people placed into them to see how they view the site.

Answer 1

Dear Seth Pullishy,

Good day! Thank you for posting your query in our community.

Based on your description, you encountered a problem when making a group access only one library.

Generally, you can assign unique permission for these two libraries via  Settings > Library settings > More library settings > under "Permissions and Management" section > select "Permissions for this document library" > if this Library is inheriting the permission of the site, then you need to Stop Inheriting Permissions first to grant the unique permissions for this Library > then delete Site Visitors and Site Members group (do not delete the Site Owner group and make sure the admin or owner in this group) > then you can grant permission to a group. Repeat these steps on another library.

May I know what problem you have encountered? You can provide more details like screenshots for us.

Sincerely,

Jazlyn | Microsoft Community Moderator