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Need option to define priority order for certain settings of team, group, user

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Level 5

3/30/23

Description - There are certain settings that can be set on a Team, Group, or user profile, such as layout template. The current behavior is to use the priority of user, then team or group (not sure which takes priority). The problem with this default priority is that a Team cannot override the member's layout setting, making it impossible to standardize by team. The admin has to remove the individual user's layout template setting in order for the team's layout to apply.

 

Why is this feature important to you - Cannot apply a standard using Team due to the current fixed priority order

How would you like the feature to work - Add a setting to define the priority order between Company, Group, Team, User. The setting would allow the admin to set the order of priority for specific settings. Not all settings should have the same priority. Schedule would have a different priority order.

 

Current Behaviour - Fixed priority order for layout template selection, so cannot standardize using Team.

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Community Advisor

3/31/23

I have used this existing feature to my advantage by setting a standard template assigned to all groups, Then templates by job role that override group. Then templates by user that override everything. I don't need to use team layouts (only because of the way our teams are stuctured).

For me, this hierarchical application of layouts is brilliant and suits my organisation well. Plus, it follows industry standard for hierarchical permissions. It works like every other system so no learniing curve. There is an ititial setup overhead but once that is done, it's close to maintenance free.

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Level 5

4/5/23

That works for some things, but schedules doesn't work well for us. A user's profile overrides the project's set schedule. It impacts the project timeline calculations that PMs expect. We need the ability to define the order of priority per project configuration to avoid this type of issue. By adding a configuration capability, it can be set to different organization policies.

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Employee

4/21/23

@RandyRoberts This is what Simon is referring to I believe. https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/assign-schedule-per-user-team-group...

 

@Simon_ULe These ideas are very thought provoking.  We'll probably have to see more likes in order to get the attention of the folks that can look at addressing them.