How to Change Workarea Owner?

I recently created a new workarea for one of our business units, and during that process TeamSite prompted me to specify an owner for the new workarea. No problem.

The business unit has now changed its mind and designated a different employee to be the workarea owner.

How do I change the workarea owner in TeamSite?

We are using TeamSite 5.5.2.

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Migrateduser

My recommendation would be to just create a new workarea with the desired owner. Then use File->Copy-to-Area (not the OS 'cp' or 'copy' command) to give it the same content as the original workarea. There's no harm in leaving the original workarea. Multiple contributors using different workareas is normal. However, if the original owner no longer needs access to the original workarea, it could be deleted after the Copy-to-Area.

B80116

Thanks, that seems to have worked.

Migrateduser

On Solaris, you can just change the owner of the directory using chown. You can also change what group a workarea is shared with by using chgrp.

johnjamesmarsh

Doing a chown and a chgrp doesn't actually change the branch/workarea ownership fully though does it? I have done this on test branches and you can change the branch permissions and the workarea permissions but not the permissions of the STAGING, WORKAREA and EDITION folders.

Lets say your branch is group owned by the designers group. You decide to change it to the web_des group.

Group members:
desingers: john, bob, mary
web_des: john, bob, mary, fred, sally

You do a chgrp of the workarea and branch to web_des. fred and sally still have no access to the workarea as the WORKAREA folder has 666 permissions and is group owned by the designers group.

This IS the voice of bitter experience talking here. You can create a new branch and copy the files across but then when you delete the original branch you lose the history! You can write a natty little script that copies all the file versions from the original branch to the new branch, just don't run it when users are trying to use the system.

I'm willing to be proved wrong. Does anyone know how to change the permissions of the EDITION, STAGING and WORKAREA branches?

The morning rant over with.

John

james1

I've never seen the "EDITION", "STAGING", and "WORKAREA" placeholder directories with permissions of 666. Usually they are 555, and so ownership of those directories is usually not an issue.

As far as I know, there is no way to change ownership of the placeholder directories. I believe that they remain owned by the user/group that the branch was originally owned by.

-- James

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James H Koh
Interwoven Engineering

johnjamesmarsh

Sorry, your right. The permissions are indeed 555.

Edited by johnjamesmarsh on 07/03/03 07:25 AM (server time).

Migrateduser

I made these changes to an existing Workarea just last week. Changed the owner, changed the group, and changed the permissions to 771. This changed who the Workarea is owned by, group it's shared with, and the permissions that the owner and group has within that workarea.

ProfessorX

In doing it that way you have to reset all the permissions.

Isn't there a better/easier way?

The Professor-