Ensuring Access to the Site Collection Web Part Gallery (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)

Published: February 2004

Abstract: Learn how to ensure that users have access to the central Web Part gallery in a site collection.

Overview

Every site collection includes a Web Part gallery that contains many commonly used Web Parts. However, users might not automatically have access to this Web Part gallery.

The site collection Web Part gallery is called Site Title Gallery, where Site Title is the title of the top-level Web site in the site collection. It contains Web Parts that are installed with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as the Content Editor, Form, Image, Members, Page Viewer, and XML Web Parts.

As a member of the Administrator site group on the top-level Web site, you can control access to the site collection Web Part gallery by granting users or site groups permission to use the site collection Web Part gallery. When you add users to a default site group on the top-level Web site or a subsite that shares permissions with the top-level site, they are automatically given appropriate access to the site collection Web Part gallery. However, you must give users access to the Web Part gallery separately in the following scenarios:

  • When you give a custom site group permission to customize a Web Part page by granting the Edit Items or Add and Customize Pages rights. Similarly, when you give a custom site group permission to personalize a Web Part by granting the Add/Remove Private Web Parts and Update Personal Web Parts rights, you must give users access to the Web Part gallery separately.

  • When you give a user the Edit Items right for a document library containing Web Part pages.

The following sections will guide you through creating custom site groups and adding users to document libraries, making sure that those users have access to the site collection Web Part gallery.

See Also

Concepts

Site Collection Administrators and Site Collection Owners in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0