OVERVIEW

Column Guardian allows SharePoint site collection administrators to show/hide columns of SharePoint lists and document libraries from specified users or groups in selected list forms. There is no built-in feature available in SharePoint that would allow administrators to configure the visibility of columns in a list or library to selected users or groups. Column Guardian provides this functionality through a user-friendly interface to create and manage column display settings.

SHAREPOINT COLUMN GUARDIAN BENEFITS:

• Remove the need for custom coding for column visibility
• Gain Audience like capabilities at the column level
• Enable end users and developers to build solutions faster
• Control view of data according to users/group

SHAREPOINT COLUMN GUARDIAN FEATURES:

• Only tool available in the market that works with Content Type
• Works on all versions of SharePoint 2010, including SharePoint Foundation
• Works with almost all the SharePoint list types and document libraries, including custom lists and libraries
• Works with document sets
• Allows display settings to be configured for both Users and SharePoint Groups
• Ability to either make a column “Invisible” or “Read-Only” in the edit form
• Allows selection of list forms (new, edit and display forms) in which the configured column display setting must be effective. For example, “Column A” can be configured to be visible in the “Display Form” but hidden in “New Form” and “Edit Form” of a list
• Ability to configure column display settings based on content types. For example, if a list has “Column A” under two different content types “Content Type A” and “Content Type B”, it is possible to show “Column A” in the edit form of “Content Type A” and hide it in the edit form of “Content Type B”
• Ability to configure multiple column display settings. For example, it is possible to configure multiple settings like 1) Column A and Column B should not be visible to all users who belong to SharePoint Group ABC and 2) Column C should be visible only to User C, on the same list or library
• Ability to control whether the column display setting should be applied to administrators also