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Richard_Carlson
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
April 27, 2017
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Administrator should not be the account default

  • April 27, 2017
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When I create a new user and click "Show Advanced Options" the default Access Level given to the new user is System Administrator.

This seems unnecessarily dangerous, why wouldn't the default user role be the most restricted instead of the least?

5 replies

April 28, 2017

Richard, I totally agree. I logged in just to add this.

I also don't like that it populates my group by default. Most of the users I add are end-users who don't need a lot of access. So defaulting new users to system admins in the PMO group is not helpful. I liked how it was before where nothing pre-populated in those fields

Level 3
May 9, 2017

Yes, and then I get a dire warning about the impacts of not setting the new user as a Sys Admin.

Level 7
October 18, 2017

I just logged in to post this same thing!

Richard_Carlson
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
October 18, 2017

Well it's got 6 upvotes now, in another 5 years it will have the amount of votes for Workfront to consider implementing it.

Level 2
July 31, 2020

Couldn't agree more. It should not have a default setting to match the logged in user. I even struggle with it matching the home group.


Both of those features should be "turned off" when creating a new user.


In case anyone reading this is not familiar, when you chose to add a new user following this path:

People > People > New Person > Show Advanced Options


The system defaults the access level to be the same as the logged in user. This means it could default for anyone that you have set with a plan license that can manage users as well as the system admin. That's problematic.