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1. 

   lkwilson
   Member

   Here's the senario. List 1 has pre-populated fields. Business users attach files to a list item as needed. A workflow would move the attachments to List 2 where they only have add permissions.

   Is it possible to move an attachment to an existing list and add additional attachments at later dates from an item in list 1 to the matching item in list 2 via a workflow.

   The goal is to have business users attached necessary documentation in List 1 (they'll have contribute permissions on this list) and the workflow move the attachment from that item to List 2 where they'll only have add permissions.

   List 2 has the same fields as List 1 but with restricted permissions

   Posted 3 months ago #
2. 

   eric
   Moderator

   Workflows run under the current users permission level so if the users have any sort of restricted permissions on list 2, the workflow may fail when copying the data from list to list.

   I created a workflow similar to this to handle an employment site. The user has the same level of permissions on that second list but has no knowledge it exists. They are forced to use the olny list they can see.

   Posted 3 months ago #
3. 

   brian3017
   Member

   Hello
   I have a list/attachment question
   I have several secondary lists that all write back to a master list at different phases of a process. In one of these secondary lists at the end of the process it would be nice to have any attachments in that secondary list write back to the master list. Is this possible? I believe this would mean that I would be using the 'update item' command in that we would be updating an existing item in the Master list. So far when I try this, I get an error from my workflow whenever there is an attachment in the secondary list
   regards
   brian

   Posted 2 months ago #
4. 

   lkwilson
   Member

   Eric,
   What I'm trying to do is similiar to what Brian is trying to do....except it involves only two lists.

   I have learned regarding lists. One list can have contribute permissions and the second can have add permissions for the same group of people. A workflow created with SPD works, copying an item from the first list to the second, then deleting itself from the first. The user can't see the second list but can add to it.

   This senario does not work with Document libraries...unfortunately. Best I can figure out the failure is related to the extra events that fire with a library related to how a document is handled.

   Posted 2 months ago #

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