Project area membership
(Note: I'm a member of the Jazz development team, but while experimenting with my own server, I had a question, and in the spirit of transparency I ask it in the forums <g>).
On my local machine, I created a new repository, a new project area, and a new team area. I'm the only user of the repository at the moment and it wasn't clear to me whether I needed to make myself a member of the project area, the team area, or both. I understand what you can do by assigning users to team areas and assigning roles to users in the context of a team area, but the implications of making a user a member of a project area weren't clear. So the question: When should a user be a member of a project area, and what capabilities/permissions does this give the user vs. just being a member of one of the child team areas? -- Bill Higgins Jazz Web UI Foundation Team |
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Jared Burns (4.5k●2●9)
| answered Jan 28 '08, 12:18 p.m.
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Assigning a user a role on the project area allows you to configure
role-based permissions for project operations. Project operations are operations who scope is the entire project - for example, saving the project area itself or saving the project's work item categories. You can see this in action on jazzdev. The Jazz project area is configured such that only people with certain roles (like PMC or projectadmin) can save the project area. In order to grant a user permission to modify the project area, they're given a role assignment at the project area level. bill wrote: (Note: I'm a member of the Jazz development team, but while -- Jared Burns Jazz Process Team |
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Ah, this makes sense. I always wondered what special permissions Erich had that allowed him to modify work item categories while I was forbidden - the answer is that he's got the right role in the Jazz Project project area itself, whereas I'm not even a member of the project area itself (I'm a member of several child Team Areas).
Glad I asked! Thanks Jared. -- Bill Higgins Jazz Web UI Foundation Team |
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