Rights by Investment by User

This report lists all of the rights a user has on any work item. Further, you can see where the rights are granted, from where they are inherited, and whether permission is denied at any level. This report can be run on only one user at a time.

Fields

Descriptions for the fields that are available in this report can be found in the following table.

Field Description
Action

The actions that are allowed.

Deny

Indicates whether permission is denied.

Group

The name of the group to which the user belongs that gives the user permission to access the investment or resource team.

Inherit

Indicates whether permissions are inherited from the parent investment.

Investment

The name of the work item, log item, or discussion.

Parent

The name of the parent investment or resource team.

Rights

The rights granted to the user.

Role

The name of the role to which the user belongs that gives the user permission to access the investment or resource team.

User Name

The name of the user.

Screen Shot

Screen shot of the Rights by Investment by User system report.

Adding a report that uses the Rights by Investment by User report template

To add a report that uses the Rights by Investment by User report template, open the New Report dialog box from the My Reports tab and then follow the steps below.

To add a report that uses the Rights by Investment by User template
  1. Open the Tools module.
  2. Select the My Reports tab.
  3. Click New Report, select Administrative, and then click OK.

    New Reports dialog box.

  4. In the New Report dialog box, type a name for the report.
  5. On the General tab, from the Report Template drop-down, select Rights by Investment by User, enter a description (optional), and indicate whether you want to run the report immediately (after you are finished creating it).

    Choose a report.

  6. On the Schedule tab, select Run this report on a schedule if you want the report to be run on a periodic basis. Once selected, you can define how frequently you want the report to be run, the format in which the report will be presented, and how many previous instances of the report you want to store.

    Indicate whether you want to run the report on a scheduled basis.

  7. If you have chosen to run the report on a scheduled basis, you can use the Recipients tab to select the users, security groups, and security roles who will receive a notification when this report is run. After you have chosen the recipients, click Add.
  8. If you have chosen to run the report on a scheduled basis, you can use the Template tab to define parameters for the email notification. You can define the title (as it will appear in the subject line). You can add the Timestamp and Report Name attributes into the title or the template (the message body). You can add a URL link into the message body that will allow any recipient to link directly to the report.

    Indicate whether you want to run the report on a scheduled basis.

  9. When finished, click OK.

View

You can view the Rights by Investment by User report directly after adding it by selecting the Run this report immediately option in the New Report dialog box. (Reports can also be run from the My Reports tab in the Tools module or the Reports tabs in the Projects module.) Administrative reports do not have filter options.