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Not able to Edit web part

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Hi, It is weird if you have full rights and still you are not able to edit the web parts. Well I should say its exacted in some sense. SharePoint is a product which gives flexibility to configure your portal as you want. So what is the trick behind this issue. Let me clear it should not treated like an issue instead its a security setting which is restricting users having full permissions to even edit the web parts on web application. So question is where can I find this setting. Central Admin > Application Management > Manage Web applications >  select your web application >Web Part Security. As per this setting you can configure: 1) Web Part Connections: Allow users to create connection between webparts 2) Online Web Part Gallery: Allow user to access the online web part Gallery. 3) Scriptable Web Parts: Allow contributors to add and edit scriptable Web parts We are more interested in the third setting which allows/restrick contributors to edit of add web parts. There are