Areas and iterations, permissions required

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  •  29-05-2022
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Question

What are the correct permissions/settings to allow an user to create/edit areas and iterations?

I have an user that is getting this message in the admin section of areas or iterations:

You do not have one or more permissions required to update the iterations for this team

The weird thing is that the user can indeed create/edit areas and iterations, this user is part of a TFS Group I created for the Project, the Security properties of this group are:

Create test runs - Allow 
Delete team project - Not Set 
Delete test runs - Allow 
Edit project-level information - Not Set 
Manage test configurations - Allow 
Manage test environments - Allow 
View project-level information - Allow 
View test runs - Allow

The Security of Areas and Iterations have allow to everything.

This used to be enough in TFS 2010, but it don't know why the message appears in TFS 2012.

Another thing, If I change the Security Property of "Edit project-level information" to Allow the user does not get the message, but in TFS 2010 this setting allowed users to change the permissions of another users and I don't want that.

Was it helpful?

Solution 2

I don't know if its the correct answer, but i added my custom group to the Project "Team". I have to read more about this Teams thing in TFS2012.

OTHER TIPS

U can use TFS Sidekick to effectively see how a users inherited different permissions on the different area's in TFS. U can use this tool to check out other projects where the permissions work and see if the adjustments u made had the effect u wanted. I dont advice to change permissions by this tool but use the administrator console to give this permissions to the group u want to.

Tfs 2012 Sidekick

You (as project admin) have to use security policies on Iteration and area nodes from project web portal. (ex: http://tfsxxxx:8080/tfs/<collection>/<project>/_admin/_iterations ..../_areas).

Select an iteration or area node, right-click and select Security in order to set right to:

  • Create child nodes
  • Delete this node
  • Edit this node
  • View permissions for this node
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