Hi Nicole,

Project Managers can create groups of users for email lists and configure the permissions within their projects.  A Project Manager cannot add new users to the system or their Project, this is limited to the System Admin (root user) and users with Organization Administration.  Once a user is in the system and the user or a group that the user belongs to has been given permissions to the project then the Project Manager can fine tune the permissions within the project.

Here is a link to the permissions documentation.  http://www.jamasoftware.com/help/setting_permissions.htm

Steve

Nicole,

The primary drivers behind the change were customer concerns around license management and data security.  We are considering additional Administration functionality that would provide an organization to configure project manager rights such that a project manager could add users, assign licenses etc.

As a workaround, you can create a group that contains all of the users in the system and then within the permissions dialog add that group at the Organization level without any permissions.  Once that is in place, all project managers will have ability to provide permissions to the group and all users within the group.

Steve

Nicole,

I'm a bit concerned when you say that your groups disappear, this is not expected behavior and I've yet to recreate it.

What I've done, after logging in as a user with Administration rights and switching to the Administration view, is create the group "All Users" and assign that group to the organization, similar to the Organization Admin group.  I do not provide that group with either Administration or Manage Project rights.  If you click through your projects you should see that the group is available but without any rights.

Now you should be able to Configure an individual project and either create a new project level group or add individual users.  Because the All Users group is visible to the project you should see everyone that is included in the group.  No one in the group will see the project without you either overriding the group's permissions or adding them separately.

If this doesn't work for you let me know and we can setup a screenshare to review the settings that we have used.

Steve