The Role Assignments tab, advanced view, contains the following fields:
- Simple Click to view the Role Assignments tab, simple view.
- Manage By Select Role to manage role assignments by security role and Group / User to manage role assignments by user and/or security group.
- Role or Group / User Depending on which method you choose to manage role assignments, displays security roles or displays users and/or security groups that are available for a role assignment to the selected work item.
- Show Unassigned Depending on which method you choose to manage role assignments, displays security roles or displays users and/or security groups who do not have a role assignment to the selected work item.
- Show Users Select to display both users and security groups in the Group / User list.
- Assignments This column indicates whether a user and/or security group has a role assignment to the selected work item. If the column shows Is Assigned To Role, the user and/or security group has been given a role assignment to the selected work item. If the column shows Inherits Assignment To Role, the user and/or security group is inheriting its role assignment from a role assignment made to a parent work item. If the column shows Does Not Inherit Assignment To Role, the user and/or security group is not inheriting its role assignment from a parent work item.
- Role This column displays the security roles from which users and/or security groups can be given role assignments.
- Parent Groups This column indicates the security groups to which a user and/or a security group belong. This column is only visible when the Role option is selected for the Manage By selector.
- Add Click this button to add a selected user and/or security group to the role assignment for this work item. This will add the Is Assigned To Role icon in the Assignment column.
- Remove Click to remove a selected user and/or security group from the role assignment for this work item. This will add the Does Not Inherit Assignment To Role icon in the Assignment column.
- Clear Click to clear a selected user and/or security group from the role assignment for this work item. This will remove the Is Assigned To Role or Does Not Inherit Assignment To Role icons from the Assignment column.