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PWA: Group/Category & Project Permissions -in relation to- SharePoint: Read vs Edit Access
Good morning, I am hoping someone in the community can help steer me in the right direct… and hopefully help me make sense of the nuances of getting permissions/Groups/Categories setup correctly....
Dominic_M10 --
Based on your description of your current security model, I suspect that what you have created is simply too complex to work reliably. It surely must be an app admin's worst nightmare. But if your PMs start adding special permissions for their projects, that will only make matters worse. My recommendation would be to do your best to reduce the number of security Groups and Categories instead. Since I cannot see your Project Online instance, I cannot advise you how to accomplish this, but I think that would be the better way to move forward. Hope this helps.
Based on your description of your current security model, I suspect that what you have created is simply too complex to work reliably. It surely must be an app admin's worst nightmare. But if your PMs start adding special permissions for their projects, that will only make matters worse. My recommendation would be to do your best to reduce the number of security Groups and Categories instead. Since I cannot see your Project Online instance, I cannot advise you how to accomplish this, but I think that would be the better way to move forward. Hope this helps.
Hi Dale - thanks for the swift response. We made a change to the security model and now only have 7 security groups, I have recommended that we remove Basic Project Security permissions from users as to allow this to persist undermines the intent in simplifying the security model we now have. I will let you know if this argument wins the day.