SharePoint User Rights: List Permissions

SharePoint defines 33 separate user rights divided into three categories: list permissions, site permissons and personal permissions.

The below is a description of user rights categorised by list permissions.

Right	Description
Manage Lists	Create and delete lists, add or remove columns in a list, and add or remove public views of a list.
Override Check Out	Discard or check in a document that is checked out to another user.
Add Items	Add items to lists, add documents to document libraries, and add web discussion comments.
Edit Items	Edit items in lists, edit documents in document libraries, edit web discussion comments in documents, and customize web part pages in document libraries.
Delete Items	Delete items from a list, documents from a document library, and web discussion comments in documents.
View Items	View items in lists, documents in document libraries, and web discussion comments.
Approve Items	Approve a minor version of a list item or document.
Open Items	View the source of documents with server-side file handlers.
View Versions	View past versions of a list item or document.
Delete Versions	Delete past versions of a list item or document.
Create Alerts	Create e-mail alerts.
View Application Pages	View forms, views, and application pages. Enumerate lists.

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