Work Item field permission restrictions
Administrators can configure restrictions on permission to read and/or modify Work Item fields. In particular, the permission to MODIFY a Work Item field can impact users' ability to perform some operations.
The following sections describe this impact.
New Work Items
If a user is denied permission to MODIFY for Work Item fields, the ability to create new Work Items is limited as follows:
Required field? | Default value configured? | Result for user |
|---|---|---|
YES | YES | Create is allowed. Default value is used, and user cannot modify it. |
YES | NO | Create is disallowed. Message is displayed to user. |
NO | YES | Create is allowed. Default value is used, and user cannot modify it. |
NO | NO | Create is allowed. No value is set. User cannot modify field. |
Imported or re-imported Work Items
If a user is denied permission to MODIFY some Work Item field(s), and the user imports new Work Items or reimports round-trip Work Items which hold values for the restricted fields, those fields are ignored by the importer, the field values are not imported, and the user sees a message about the restriction.