Project Administrator member unable to update team member wo
In the online help in the section "Collaborating > Working with
projects, teams, and process > Creating and modifying a team area > Adding and modifying users", it indicates that when creating users in the repository, you can "... designate the user as an administrator in a project area or a team area. The administrative control also applies to all sub-team areas that are located within the project area or team area where it is assigned. Administrators have administrative privileges outside of the permissions defined by the process. They can modify the process configuration, team membership, and user information including Work Environment information.". In our repository, we have a user who is included in the Project Administrators list for the project, yet when this user attempts to change a team members work assignments, upon save they get the massage "The user "username" is not authorized to perform the operation. The "JazzAdmins" role is required to perform this operation". Am I misreading the help? We've reserved JazzAdmin role to those users who setup and manage the repository. And I would have thought users listed as Project Administrators would have authority to make these sort of changes, without needing to be in the JazzAdmins group. Brian |
4 answers
Millard Ellingsworth (2.5k●1●24●31)
| answered Sep 09 '08, 3:51 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
I asked a nearly identical question a couple days ago: https://jazz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2154
The basic answer seems to be that the user exists outside of the Project and Team areas, therefore being an administrator of either doesn't give you rights over the Users. Not that I necessarily agree -- this seems like the sort of data that a Project or Team Area administrator can safely and reasonably be trusted with, but there is a philosophy behind it and I can respect that. |
For what it is worth, we are just getting going with a large team using RTC, most of whom are using the web ui rather than the rich client. Short of giving JazzAdmins rights to all of our managers and team leaders, we are currently unable to work effectively with scheduled absences, part-time working etc.
I would strongly support any drive to either enable web ui users to work with their profile, or to allow role-based permissions to enable editing of others' profiles. |
briancop wrote:
For what it is worth, we are just getting going with a large team handle this. I would have intuitively thought that a team-lead role would have the ability to update work assignment information for other members on the team, and that certainly a project admin would have this authority. As it stands, given the options of requesting each user to update their own work assignments or giving a team or project lead repository admin access, I have a feeling we'll need to go with the later for now, but as a repository admin myself, I don't the idea. Brian |
I've opened work item
https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Jazz%20Project#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=61076. Please subscribe and add your comments if you're interested in a fix or enhancement request for this. Brian |