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Restricting Read access between TeamAreas


sandro de santis (1288) | asked Jan 13 '14, 4:39 a.m.
I know how to restrict write access to artifacts ( Test Plans, Testcases, ...) to members of other team-areas, but I need to restrict even read access. Is it possible? I tried defining categories in the Project Area, and associating them to team-areas, but, still, as an example,  members of each team area can read other team-area Plans.  

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John Nason (2.4k1012) | answered Jan 16 '14, 8:40 a.m.
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Currently read-access is only controlled at the Project Area level.
Team Areas can be used for write-access permission.
Using Team Areas for read-access is something we've heard before and a valid scenario but not yet implemented in RQM. The enhancement is tracked in Support read access control on team area (74538)
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John Nason
QM Development
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Paul Slauenwhite (8.4k12) | answered Jan 13 '14, 9:16 a.m.
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edited Jan 15 '14, 8:05 a.m.
Within project areas and team areas, you add users as members. Depending on the access control settings in a project area, membership in that project area or one of its team areas can determine whether a user has access to project area and team area artifacts. 

[Source: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m5/topic/com.ibm.jazz.platform.doc/topics/c_understanding_user_access_control.html]

It appears the same users are in both team areas.  For more information, see http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m5/topic/com.ibm.jazz.platform.doc/topics/c_restricting_read_access_project_areas_web.html.

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sandro de santis commented Jan 13 '14, 10:30 a.m. | edited Jan 13 '14, 11:32 a.m.

Hi Paul,
I defined One Project Area, containing 2 team-areas ( say TA1 and TA2 ). Both team-areas have the same main administrator, and different users.
So, I defined two users UTA1 and UTA2, each one only in the relevant TA.
I tried the following settings in the Access Control:
1)  Members in Project Hierarchy   ->  both users can read everything
2)  No one ->   UTA1 and UTA2  cannot even log into the PA
3)  Users in the access list only ( with both users in the list ) ->  as point 1.

It looks like the Access Control is effective at PA level, not at TA level.

Any hint is welcome, thanks in advance
Sandro


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sandro de santis (1288) | answered Jan 13 '14, 11:30 a.m.
Hi Mark, thank you for your response.
I read the article, and it seems related to Work Items, and using features in RTC. Maybe I am wrong but I did not find anything similar in RQM.
Are those features also available in RQM?
Thanks

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