Hello,
I have a Sharepoint Discussion Board (read items user created only, enabled) with 2 users with contribute rights and 1 user with full control rights. When a user with contribute rights creates a discussion, he is able to see it, and so is the full control rights user. Now the problem is that when the full control rights user replies to it, the original user who created the discussion cannot see the reply. I've checked the permissions over and over and I don't know what the problem is.
It seems like it's a SharePoint restriction so I thought I could create a workflow to change users' permissions. So in SharePoint Designer 2010, I created a list Workflow for this discussion board. Workflow settings are: start workflow automatically when an item is created and changed. Now, I created an impersonation step and inside the step I added an action to replace the permissions (from contribute to design) to the Current Item. However, this did not give a desired result. I've also tried inserting a condition so that when an item is a reply (Content type id is message) then change permissions. However, this didn't work either. I was wondering if it was possible to create a workflow to allow users to see replies to their own posts and how it could be done.
Any help is appreciated!