Granting permission to Discussion Board

Question

Hello Community
    Using Sharepoint 2010 Server and the UI is there a way to
grant the Discussion Board permission to a group to: Add Discussion, Reply
to a Discussion and Delete a Discussion without granting Full Control or Contribute permissions?
    Thank you
    Shabeaut

Answer 1

Hi Shabeaut,
 try below workaround:
1. Create two user group. One for add discussion and second for add reply. Then add users based on your need in groups
2. Give contribute permission to first group so that they can add discussion and give read rights to second group so they can only read.
3. Now as soon a discussion is created you have do break the permission  inheritance to change the permission for both groups. So go to created discussion permission and give read access to first group and contribute to second group.
This is only OOTB solution for your requirement and this is bit hectic work for admin. I would suggest that create one custom event receiver, which can change the item level permission as soon as discussion is created.
The thread is http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/89056c2e-352e-4ad1-b9dd-c53e41c8d9ab/custom-grant-permission-for-discussion-board?forum=sharepointadminprevious
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