Change the owner of a list item

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2013-09-04

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_{Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:26 AM}

Hi all,

Scenario:

I have a SharePoint list with the following settings:

Item-level Permissions:

Read items that were created by the user
Create items and edit items that were created by the user

Requirement:

Users will add / update items in that list. Only the author of the item shall be able to read / edit his/her own items.

The settings above will ensure that.

But eventually the responsibility changes, and another user will have to take over data maintenance. With the above settings, new users to that SharePoint site will not see any list items.

I am looking for a solution (other than single-item permissions) to keep the above settings and change the ownership of several tems to another user.

Is that possible? I tried with PowerShell, but the xml property is read only.

Xml Property System.String Xml {get;}

Thanks for any help!

Markus

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All replies (2)

_{Wednesday, September 4, 2013 8:57 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hello,

Simple solution is, create powershell script and update "Created By" name so your settings will work as it is. Remember Item Level permission internally point to Created By column so need to update this.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/8e80b9e7-af17-49fb-8986-7a1e31995b96/how-to-update-the-created-by-and-modified-by-columns-in-sharepoint-lists-using-powershell

Hope it could help

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_{Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:24 AM}

Hi Hemendra,

thanks! it worked.

Regards