Control access to project areas and their artifacts
This tutorial describes how to use access control features to determine who can access a project area and its artifacts, such as work items, streams, and components.
Learning objectives
In this tutorial, you will learn how to do the following tasks:- View the access control settings for a project area and understand the default setting.
- Change the access control setting so that users who are not members of the project area hierarchy have access.
- Create a work item category and associate it with a team area.
- Restrict visibility to a work item category, and restrict access to work items that are filed against that category.
- Create an access group that consists of a team area and specific users.
- Add the Restricted Access presentation to the work item editor.
- Control access to specific work items by changing values in the Restricted Access field.
- Restrict access to streams and components to members of a team area.
- Restrict access to folders and files under source control to a specific user.
Time required
Plan to spend one to two hours on this tutorial.- Introduction: Control access to project areas and their artifacts
This tutorial describes how to use access control features to determine who can access a project area and its artifacts, such as work items, streams, and components. - Lesson 1: Control read access to project area
In this lesson, you create a project area and explore how to control who can access the project area and its artifacts. - Lesson 2: Restrict access to work items based on team membership
In this lesson, you create a team area and a work item category, and associate the category with the team area. Then, you restrict visibility and access to the work items that are filed against that category so that only team members can see and access them. - Lesson 3: Control access to specific work items by using an access group
In this lesson, you create and use an access group to control who has access to specific work items. - Lesson 4: Restrict access to source control artifacts
In this lesson, you restrict access to a stream and a component to members of the team area that owns the stream and component. You will also restrict access to a specific folder and file that are under source control. - Summary: Control access to project areas and their artifacts
By completing this tutorial, you learned how to adjust access control settings on project areas and how to restrict access to work items, work item categories, and source control artifacts.