Permissions @ PWA Root

[Steven Douglass]

Project Pro 2007 | PS 2007

How are users/group permissions assigned at the \PWA level? Is this a
manual/WSS 3.0 permission setting that the system admin would apply?

Should everyone in the organization have read rights at this level if
workspace rights are handled via project plans?

I am using the out-of-the-box user groups (Administrators, Executives,
Protfolio Managers, etc.)

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi Steven,

PWA assigns the rights automatcally to the workspace the following way:
If you have access to all Projects you will also have full access to the
workspace
Team members that are part of your Project team ( via build team from
enterprise resource) will automatically receive read rights
Team members assigned to a task on your projct will have edit rights on the
workspace
Hope this is what you where after

 

[Steven Douglass]

Thanks for your reply Marc.

I may have used the wrong term. The PS2007 web "root" as I understand it is
the "Home - Project Web Access" page where the signed-in user sees links to
tasks, timesheets, issues and risks, etc that encompass information from all
projects for which they have been assigned. At the bottom of this page there
is a list of Project Workspaces for which they have been assigned via project
plans, in the manner that you mention below. The URL is
http://<servername>/PWA/default.aspx.

I am managing permissions to workspaces via project plans. This seems to
work with some caveats and I've posted questions on this topic but have not
yet received any replies. Anyway, that's another thread.

From what I understand \PWA is NOT a Project Workspace but is a Site (using
WSS 3.0 terminology) that can contain many workspaces. The Site start page
shows only what a user can see based on their permissions to workspaces.

So, an executive would see links to all project workspaces but have only
read rights.
A team member would see links to ONLY project workspaces for which they have
been added to the team.

To recap the question; how are rights to the ROOT \PWA Site handled?

Thanks.