How to ensure that all team members for a project are contributorsfor a project workspace?

[anovak]

In MSP 2007, what exact steps do I need to go through in order to
ensure that all Team Members (may not have assignments) of a project
have contributor rights to lists in the corresponding Project
Workspace once the site is created by Project Server without having to
jack around with SharePoint security on the SharePoint side?

I added all team members to the project (no assignments). I created
the project workspace for the project and I believe at some point did
NOT inherit permissions from pwa (I could be wrong though).

All of the team members show up for the site but ONLY AS READERS.
When I attempt to update their permission to contributor I get a wierd
error message saying that I don't have rights and should logon as a
different user. HUH??? I'm the same person who created the project
- the project manager - and I also happen to have administrator
rights.

What gives? Please help cause I have a meeting at 2pm tomorrow!!!!!

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT

 

[Rod Gill]

By default in Project Server 2007 resources added to a project get read only
rights to the project workspace. Once a resource is assigned to the Task and
the project published, they get write access.

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Rod Gill
Microsoft MVP for Project

Author of the only book on Project VBA, see:
http://www.projectvbabook.com

 

[oldbradfordian]

I have Project Server 2007 running on two separate systems (live and
test/sandbox). In both cases when I create a new project it automatically
creates a new project workspace and adds users as "Readers (Microsoft Office
Project Server)", as you suggest it should. However, if I then assign these
users to tasks in my project, then save and publish the changes, the users DO
NOT change to "Team members (Microsoft Office Project Server)". Shouldn't
this be automatic? At least that's what I expect both from your posting and
from the wording of the Workspace Permissions options on the Project
Workspace Provisioning Settings page. I have the checkbox 'checked' to
automatically synchronize Project Web Access Users with Project Workspaces
whenever I publish a project. I cannot find any additional documentation that
describes this.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

Saw that you posted this twice,

This issue is identified as a known bug and is in the list of issues that
are fixed in the latest April 3rd hotfix package:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950816

.......
You create a project in Project Server 2007, and you add a resource to the
project. However, you do not assign the resource to a task. You publish the
project plan to a Windows SharePoint Web site. Then, you assign the resource
to the task, and you republish the project. In this scenario, the Windows
SharePoint Web site permission for the resource is "reader." However, you
expect the permission to be "team member."
.......

Jonathan

 

[oldbradfordian]

Thanks. Sorry for the duplicate post. I posted it here before I found the
other more recent thread and thought it more appropriate.

 

[Rob 19]

I have another twist on the theme. If a resource that is assigned to a task
which has an assignment owner that is not themselves, then that assignment
owner only has read access to the Workspace...surely they should have write
access also?

Is there any way I can modify this?

Rob.