Project Workspace

[myschif]

Under Site Permissions on the Project Worjkspace site, I see all the users.
Some are listed as Reader (Microsoft Office Project Server) and some are
listed as Team Member (Microsoft Office Project Server). My assumptions are:
1) the Team Members are assigned tasks in the project plan and the readers
are not.
2) Both should be able to access the project workspace.

Is this correct?

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

You are spot on myschif. 2007 has now a nice feature, if you like that
someone can view the workspace, you can add them to your project team without
assigning them to a task. that aslo means that they only have read access.
As soon as you have team members assigned to tasks, they become contributers
and can edit workspace content.
I like this new feature

 

[myschif]

Thanks for the confirmation Marc.

You are spot on myschif. 2007 has now a nice feature, if you like that
someone can view the workspace, you can add them to your project team without
assigning them to a task. that aslo means that they only have read access.
As soon as you have team members assigned to tasks, they become contributers
and can edit workspace content.
I like this new feature

 

[oldbradfordian]

Marc,

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]

Hey guys,

I just happened to stumble upon a known bug that was listed as being fixed
in the latest April 3rd hotfix package:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950816

List of issues that are fixed:
.......
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."
.......

Sounds like your issue doesn't it ???

Jonathan

 

[oldbradfordian]

Thank you! Yes, that is exactly my problem. I will test this hotfix today.

I appreciate the swift response, Jonathan.

 

[oldbradfordian]

I just tested the hotfix and it does indeed fix my problem.

Thank you.

 

[Jonathan Sofer]

That is good news. Thanks for sharing your results as sometimes the
hotfixes don't actually fix the issues they are supposed to address.