Choosing Role Capabilities

 

Dimensions CM allows you to assign any number of roles to a single user. This is particularly important on smaller development projects, where users may perform many different roles for multiple project/streams and segments of the product structure.

 

Additionally, Dimensions CM allows multiple users to share responsibility for a role, even within the same product segment and project/stream. When users share a role on a design part, all users receive email notification and inbox entries when appropriate. To help enforce levels of responsibility, Dimensions CM allows you to assign one of the following capabilities to each user:

Primary and Secondary

A user with the primary capability has the main responsibility for that role on the design part or object. You can only assign this role capability to a single user. If you assign the primary capability to a user, then you cannot assign the leader capability (described below) to the same user; primary and leader capabilities are mutually exclusive.

Users with the secondary capability act as backup to the user with the primary capability. They have exactly the same privileges as the user with the primary capability.

Leader

An alternative to assigning primary and secondary capabilities is the leader capability. This concept mainly applies to requests, where a large group of users may need to contribute comments without being granted the ability to action the request. This does not apply to items.

If you assign the leader capability to a user, then you cannot assign the primary capability to the same user; leader and primary capabilities are mutually exclusive.

Users with the leader capability can, by default:

If you assign the leader capability, then the remaining users can only:

Related Topics

Managing Roles

Roles and Design Parts

Roles on Projects and Streams

Assigning Roles to Baselines

Assigning Roles to Requests

Roles on Design Part Variants

Roles and Lifecycles

Delegating Roles

Inboxes and Roles

Assigning Pending and Optional Roles

Special Roles