We have made changes to how we present private projects to non-authorized users. Historically, a private project would appear in portfolios, searches, and other areas throughout NPD. The business process that customers followed was to provide a “code name” so that the nature of the project was naturally hidden.
Now in 6.0 we have taken further steps to hide private projects from non-authorized
users. The idea is this, users have the
ability to read or view projects marked ‘Private’ if they are a member of one
of the following groups:
• Team Leaders – Summary Tab
• Additional Readers – Summary Tab
• Project Owner – Summary Tab
• Team Members – Project Team Tab
• Gate Keepers – Project Team Tab
• Additional Notification – Project Team Tab
• Authorized user of an activity associated to the current Project Stage
• NPD role [NPD_ADMIN]
• NPD role [NPD_SA]
If a user is not authorized the project will either not appear or the information will be obfuscated.
The Basics
In this section we compare how an authorized user sees information related to a private project and how a non-authorized user sees the same information.
1. User Setup: Set up both users the same so that the only difference is that User A is associated with the private project “Mint Chocolate Burst” while User B is not associated with the project.
2. Action Items
Figure 1. User A’s Action Items\Strategic Brief and Projects Tab
Figure 2. User B’s View of User A’s Action Items\Strategic Briefs and Projects Tab
3. Project EQT
Figure 3. User A’s Project Search Results
Figure 4. User B’s Project Search Results
4. Strategic Brief
Figure 5. User A’s Strategic Brief View
Figure 6. User B’s Strategic Brief View
5. Portfolio
Figure 7. User A’s View from a Portfolio
Figure 8. User B’s View from a Portfolio
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