Give permission to list and a few items

Question

I have a SharePoint 2013 list which contains many items (about 50).

But I can't find a way to give some users access to the list and only a few items appart from adding the read permissions for all items, then removing the read permission for these users in each item they're not related.

For example, let's take this list of customers with their name, language and country.

Customers

John - EN - UK

Jack - EN - US

Jean - FR - CA

Is there a way to give access to the customers which language is "EN" and to the list itself without adding the read permissions for the user on the list and having to delete the read permission on the FR item?

It would have been so easy if we could set permissions on views, but unfortunately, it seems we can't.

The only solution I could find until now is to create another list which would contains links to the items.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can create folders for each Country/Language and break inheritance and keep unique permission at folder level.This will help you to keep all records in single list and also will avoid List Item level permissions.