Creating and modifying roles

You can modify the role definitions for a project area or team area. You can also add, modify, or remove individual roles for a project or team.

About this task

To modify or create roles:

Procedure

  1. Log on as a user with either JazzProjectAdmins or JazzAdmins repository permissions.
  2. Click Admin, and then click Jazz Project Administration.
  3. On the Active Project Areas page, click the name of the project that you wish to modify. To modify roles at the team level, you would then click the name of the team that you wish to modify.
  4. Click Roles and select a role in the Defined Roles list or click Add Role in the Defined Roles toolbar.

    The predefined roles for the supplied Quality Manager project are architect, testlead, tester, testmanager, and labmanager.

    • Type an identifier for the role. This ID is used in the process configuration code and in the Process Roles lists when you add members to a team.
    • To restrict the role to one team member, set the Cardinality attribute to single.
    • To make the role available to more than one team member, set the Cardinality attribute to many.
    • To edit the role description that is displayed when assigning roles within teams, modify the Description text.
  5. Click Save.

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