OK it has been a while. <insert clever wisecrack about not being dead here>
I have been doing a bunch of the normal consulting thing these past few months. Helping customers better understand how to configure their Project Server environments around their business processes (and often helping them understand how their business processes might be changed to take better advantage of features.) I have also been doing some side-work projects.
- Working again on putting more meat on the bones for a framework for iterative design\build loops for early rollout\proof of concept phases in Project Server deployments.
- The early stages of an addin for Project Server that would allow administrators to control which projects a security category allowed access to based on some defined set of project level criteria.
1 is something that has been kicking around for a long time and I hope to get moving on soon.
2 is much more recent and I think also more exciting (which means it will likely get done first.) It would allow you to have a category that would give permissions to projects based on the value in a project level custom field rather than just on relationships to the project.
Email me your thoughts on either of these if you care to share them.
I will be better about updating. :-)
Brian
I have always thought there should be a "PBS" code working in a similar fashion to current RBS, but also being a multichoice list. You could then easily restrict access to specific programmes or portfolios. For more flexibility this might be an attribute associated with a group as well as individual users.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Mahoney | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 03:51 AM
Brian:
About time we heard from you! As always a pleasure. In 2003 we accomplished setting security category membership based on an enterprise custom field value using a database trigger. Seems like it's easy enough to do using an event handler and a PSI call.
Gary
Posted by: Gary Chefetz | Friday, June 20, 2008 at 07:48 AM