Work Items for Project Administrators are disable ?

Question

Hi experts,

I'm working with TFS 2005 and I'm Project Administrator on a project, I try to add work items but I get the error :

TF24042: You do not have permission to create work items in project...

If I change of group, by putting my loggin in contributor's one, it works perfectly.

My question: is that the normal behavior ? 

If it's the case, is there a way to allow Project Administrators to create WI ?

Thanks In Advance,

Florent MEREL

ABS Technologies
www.techheadbrothers.com - MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

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Answer 1

By default Project Admins should be able to create work items.

However in the work item type the project admin could be denied to create a work item. Did you make customizations to the work item type?

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Answer 2

Ok, I found the Area security panel !!! (I'm a rookie on this subject) 

I've "solved" my problem by playing with those securities, but lot of things aren't clear for me: 

- when I open for the first time this panel my account have been declared with a specific security where I was just able to "Edit the node"... It seems that occurs when you're the creator of the Area... (it's the case for me). 

- I though that my Project administrator rights were overriden by this specific security ? So, I remove it, thinking my Administrator rights will then allow me to create WI. And it was not the case !!! 

- In fact to be able to edit WI on all areas, it seems I'm forced to add a specific right for my account at areas root level... Adding my account at root level copy it to all child nodes 

Ewald, I was hoping to that Project Admins were able to create WI but not for me :( , The TFS admin said me he didn't make any specific stuffs on WI... Perhaps it came from addin of my Visual Studio ? So the question is still open... 

Thanks anyway

Florent MEREL

ABS Technologies
www.techheadbrothers.com - MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

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Answer 3

Hi Florent,

 

What securities did you apply to "Solve" this issue?

 

Make sure that you belong to "[Project]\Project Administrators".  By default Project Administrators should be able to create work items. You can ask your TFS admin to view your membership with TFSSecurity /imx indenty /server:<server>  to check whether there is a group that you belong to is denied to create a workitem. If you add other user to "[Project]\Project Administrators", can he create a workitem?

By the way, you could post your issue on the Team Foundation Server - Administrator Forum so you can get better and quicker reply as there are more experts on this topic.

Thank you for your understanding.

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Answer 4

Hi Edwer, 

The specific security I set is "Edit work items in this for Area root level.

TFSSecurity command say that I'm "Member of 16 group(s):"

For me 2 lines are interesting : 

e [A] [SERVER]\Team Foundation Valid Users

a [A] [MY_PROJECT]\Project Administrators

others lines deal with other projects

So I well belong to the Project Administrators group !

As moderator are you able to transfer this post in Team Foundation Server - Administrator Forum ? I can't do it or I don't find the option...

TIA

Florent MEREL

ABS Technologies
www.techheadbrothers.com - MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

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Answer 5

Could you explain which options in security tab you change for creating Bug as Work item. In my Visual Studio the same error message appears that " You do not have permission to create work items".

Thanks