updating scheduled absences not available to Team Area admin
I have a manager/user who is identified as a Team Member and Scrum Master and is an Administrator for the Project Area and the Team Area, yet she can't update anyone's schedules. It indicates she needs to be a Jazz Admin for that.
That doesn't seem right. Before I file a bug, am I missing something?
That doesn't seem right. Before I file a bug, am I missing something?
4 answers
The editing of a user's scheduled absences is done outside the context of
any team or project area (for example, you could have users and edit them
without even having a project/team area). So, permissions for making such
edits are not controlled by any project or team area permissions. Instead,
it is controlled by the repository groups (JazzUsers, JazzAdmins,
JazzGuests).
Normally, you are only allowed to edit your own user. However, if you are in
the JazzAdmins group, you can edit other user's scheduled absences as well.
I think the spirit of the tooling is that only the user himself edits his
own scheduled absences, and that as a normal mode of operation you wouldn't
really want to grant JazzAdmins just for the purpose of editing other's
schedules (I can imagine exceptional cases).
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Ryan Manwiller
Jazz Team
any team or project area (for example, you could have users and edit them
without even having a project/team area). So, permissions for making such
edits are not controlled by any project or team area permissions. Instead,
it is controlled by the repository groups (JazzUsers, JazzAdmins,
JazzGuests).
Normally, you are only allowed to edit your own user. However, if you are in
the JazzAdmins group, you can edit other user's scheduled absences as well.
I think the spirit of the tooling is that only the user himself edits his
own scheduled absences, and that as a normal mode of operation you wouldn't
really want to grant JazzAdmins just for the purpose of editing other's
schedules (I can imagine exceptional cases).
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Ryan Manwiller
Jazz Team
A fair percentage of our users only use the Web UI and this feature is not available there, so in these cases the user's manager will update the schedule for them. But I'd rather not make every manager a Jazz Admin -- but that would be better than me updating all the schedules until the Web UI catches up.
I hope that these sorts of "self service" features are a priority for the web UI in the next release.
I hope that these sorts of "self service" features are a priority for the web UI in the next release.
Another thing that might be considered is to have a parent category/group where basic non-working days (holidays) may be configured and cascaded to the members of that team. The complication is that this can be overridden at the user level (e.g. a member is not in the same country).
just throwing ideas in the air.
ciao!
just throwing ideas in the air.
ciao!
Comments
Joan Reyes
Mar 13 '13, 12:27 p.m.Was this fixed for 4.0.1?
Millard Ellingsworth
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Mar 14 '13, 12:00 p.m.There is some discussion going on in https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/180015 that indicates it may have worked briefly in 4.0.0.1 but is not working in 4.0.1 and I've just checked it in 4.0.3 with confusing results. I'll continue discussion in the work item.