PWA Project Workspaces Visibility

[KeithR]

My question involves the rules for which projects appear in the Project
Workspaces section of the PWA for different categories of users.

My particular question involves users who have been declared as proposed or
committed resources for a project or proposal, but have no 'elevated' rights
(not a PM, not the project owner, etc.).

It appears to me that as long as the workspace belongs to a PROPOSAL, such a
user will not have that project workspace listed in this section. However,
once it is converted to a PROJECT, it will be listed. Is that correct? Can
that behavior be changed without (a) giving 'Team Member' rights to view all
projects, or (b) elevating the rights of that user/resource to a PM (or other
privileged level)? The result I want is for resources to 'see' and be able
to link to project workspaces for every PROPOSAL or PROJECT for which they
are a declared resource.

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Keith:

I'm assuming that you're using 2007.

Here's how it works:

1) When a resource is a team member, but does not have an assignment on a
project, they get read-only access to project workspaces when the project is
published
2) When a resource has a published assignment in the project, they get
contributor rights (This is what they need to do linking)

So, if you want a resource to have contributor rights, create at least a
little dummy assignment, like "Contribute to Workspace" and assign them to
it. Publish the project and the permissions will sync.

You can also accomplish this using the security model without giving them
more than they need.

 

[KeithR]

Thanks...

Just to be absolutely clear then... it is not really possible to provide the
link for a 'team member' as long as it's still a proposal (at least without
changing the security model)? That would seem to be the case since there
really aren't assignments associated with tasks until it's promoted from
proposal to project.

btw - yes, using 2007

 

[Gary Chefetz]

Are you assigning tasks in the proposal or just applying a resource plan?

 

[KeithR]

Just applying a resource plan

Are you assigning tasks in the proposal or just applying a resource plan?

 

[Gary L. Chefetz]

Putting the resource into the resource plan does not grant access to the
workspace.