Another day, another puzzle to solve. Today, our editors realized they didn't have the Content Editor web part and the Summary Links web part in their list of web parts that they can use. I'm sure there were others missing as well. These two just happen to be the only ones they know how to use. Same permissions as discussed in my previous post. Very similar resolution.
Read rights needed to be applied for all users to the Web Part Gallery. This is located under >Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify All Site Settings. Then under the Gallery section you will see "Web Part Gallery".
As with everything else I wanted to know WHY this had happened. Permissions had been tweaked as part of a clean up effort, but nothing was done directly to these specific lists. The only thing that I can come up with that makes sense is that when the permissions were tweaked, some rights were removed. SharePoint must have removed the rights from these lists as well. Now, we ended up needing to add those rights back because we took too much control away from our editors, but when that happened SharePoint didn't put the rights back on to these lists because at this point inheritance had been broken.
Is your head spinning yet? Mine is. It's all good and I really like digging in and solving these puzzles but WOW! Thing happen that you just can't anticipate.
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Kari, are you still monitoring/maintaining this blog ?
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