Adding users to projects in 8.2

[Andre Nelson]

Hey,
I noticed that I can no longer add people to projects from the project's
Relationship screen. Does this mean I have to give people the role of
Project Admin in order to add people to their projects? This is
definitely overkill and I am hoping I just missed something and this is
not the case. Thanks.

- Andre L. N.

[Luanne]

Andre,

Did you upgrade to 8.3? What role are you within the system?

There were 2 new roles added, one of which is a Member Admin that
along with Project Admin rights, you can also add members to projects.

-Luanne

[Andre Nelson]

We haven't upgraded to 8.3 just yet.  We will probably be on 8.2 for another month.  Were there lots of changes to the accessibility allowed to roles from the 7 family to the 8 family?  Besides this, my users have started to notice they can no longer do a few other things that they used to.  For instance, 'Team Member' roles cannot add anything to the project level - links/attachments.  Is there any reason as to why all of these changes have been done.  Is there somewhere I can check this.  I remember there was a graphical chart that I looked at for 7-family roles, but I can't find anything similar for 8.  I thought the 7 branches roles were pretty good as they were and these new restrictions are unnecessary - at least form my initial inspection.

FYI, my role and the people who are complaining are 'Project Lead' role - who should be able to add people.  It was just changing the roles that you can't do - which is not a problem, no one wants to do it.

- Andre L. N.

[Luanne]

OK, here is the scoop...

Project Leaders should have never been able to manage members...it was
an issue that was fixed so that is why you can no longer do this. You
will want to switch to Project Administrators. 8.3 has a new role
called Member Admin...you could take advantage of this and setup key
folks down the road to handle the members administration.

Regarding the issue with team members not being able to add
attachments/links, this has been fixed with 8.3 as well.

Here is a Knowledge Base article that may be helpful regarding
roles...the new ones for 8.3 will be added soon:

http://community.versionone.com/KnowledgeBase/FAQs/Q11413.aspx

-Luanne

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[Andre Nelson]

Thanks for the update.  Now another reason to upgrade :-P .  I kinda wished we went straight to 8.3.  Are any of these fixes being back ported to 8.2?  Its not a big deal to do it I guess, but I am wondering.  Thanks.