Default Sharepoint Library View by User ID.

I was trying to let only certain number of people to have ALL VIEW, whereby majority of people should only have limited filtered view on the same site library, how to achieve this? Again I am using Sharepoint 2010 Foundation.
Thanks.

Hi,
This is not possible OOTB. SharePoint does not provide any way to redirect to the respective view based on User type /permission/group.
This can be possible in SharePoint 2013 using dynamic query , i beleive but not in SP 2010. But couple free tools/wsp available in codeplex using which you can achieve the same.
http://spcolumnpermission.codeplex.com/
Hope rhis will help. Please mark Answered id helped.
Thanks and Regards, -- Santanu Kumar Choudhury ----- SharePoint 2007/10/13 Developer

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using System.Data;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client;
using System.IO;
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outputStream.Close();
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string siteName = @"http://ui3dats011x:2015/sites/techunits/";
string docLibraryName = @"http://ui3dats011x:2015/sites/techunits/Published%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx";
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ctx.Load(LibraryName1);
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}//End of try block
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fileProperty.DocumentType = mvalue["Document_x0020_Type"];
fileProperty.DocumentCategory = mvalue["DocumentCategory"];
fileProperty.DocumentNumber = mvalue["DocumentNumber"];
fileProperty.DocumentTitle = mvalue["DocumentTitle"];
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// fileProperty.DocumentStatus = mvalue["DocumentStatus"];
List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> columnKeyValueList;
//create a list of item need to be updated or added to sharepoint library
List<FileProperty> propertyList = new List<FileProperty>();
propertyList.Add(fileProperty);
columnKeyValueList = fileProperty.getColumnKeyValueListProducts();
ListItem item = uploadedfile.ListItemAllFields;
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> metadataitem in columnKeyValueList)
item[metadataitem.Key.ToString()] = metadataitem.Value.ToString();
//item["Title"] = uploadedfile.Title;
item.Update();
ctx.Load(item);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
#region ScriptResults declaration
/// <summary>
/// This enum provides a convenient shorthand within the scope of this class for setting the
/// result of the script.
/// This code was generated automatically.
/// </summary>
enum ScriptResults
Success = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Success,
Failure = Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.DTSExecResult.Failure
#endregion
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