Assign a user to a project

Changes since ACL

Since the introduction of -> ACL it is especially important to assign newly created users to a project immediately. A user without an assigned project cannot see anything in eliona and cannot perform any actions.

Fig. 1 – This is what a user sees who is not assigned to any project. The entire menu bar is empty and no actions can be performed

Why is that?

If a user is not assigned to any project, then Users they also have no project role.

If no project role applies to a user, only the system role settings apply.

The default system role of every new user is "System-User". This role has no read permissions whatsoever.

Therefore, a user with the system role "System-User" cannot see any menu items and cannot perform any actions.

Procedure

1. Click on Engineering [A]

2. Make sure that the tab Projects [B] is selected

3. Click on the project to which you want to assign a user [C] ▷ The project settings open

4. Click on [D] ▷ The window Add user [E] appears

5. Select in Project role [F] that should be assigned to the added users.

6. Select a User [G] to be added to the project ▷ The selected user appears in [H]

7. Optional: Repeat step 6 to add more users. The role selected in [F] will be assigned to all of these users

8. Click on Save [I] ▷ The selected users are added with the role selected in [F] selected role