#Grant Temporary Permissions to Users

The Grant User Temporary Permissions feature allows you to grant the permissions for the users or groups in SharePoint. The granted permissions will be implemented on the selected nodes for a certain period of time. Once the period expires, these users or groups’ granted permissions will be deleted and not be implemented anymore.

To grant temporary permissions, complete the following steps:

1. Select the Scope of the content (from site collection level to list/library level). If you want to grant temporary permission to the specified users or groups, you must make sure the selected nodes have broken inheritance from the parent nodes.

2. Click Security > Grant Permissions > Grant Temporary Permissions. The Grant Temporary Permissions screen appears.

3. Enter usernames, group names, or the users’ e-mail addresses in the Select Users field. The username entered in the text box is supported for Active Directory users and Form Based Authentication users. The group name entered in the text box is supported for the Active Directory group and Form Based Authentication role. You can click the Check Names icon to verify the name you entered, or click the Browse icon to browse through a list of names.

4. Select one or multiple permission levels in the Grant Permissions field to grant the specified users or group permissions.

5. Select a duration time for the implemented granted permissions in the Expiration Time field.

6. Select the Send e-mails to the involved users/groups specified above checkbox in the Send E-Mail field to send an e-mail to the users when the temporary permissions are granted to them.

7. Click OK to complete granting permissions to the specified users and groups.

Once the temporary permissions are granted to the specified users and groups on the selected nodes, a temporary SharePoint group will be created in the corresponding SharePoint site by Administrator. The temporary SharePoint group includes the users and groups that are granted the temporary permissions. When the temporary permissions expire, the temporary SharePoint group will be deleted automatically from SharePoint.

The temporary SharePoint groups with the same expiration time can be distinguished by the group name’s suffixes (underscore and the number of the order they are created, such as DocAve_TemporaryGroup_20130629160000_Pacific Standard Time_1 and DocAve_TemporaryGroup_20130629160000_Pacific Standard Time_2).