Foreword: I've searched around on this question a fair bit and found answers which are close to a solution, but not what I'm looking for. So here I am, and I hope someone can help me. I'm relatively new to VSTS, so be gentle (or at least constructive) ;P
The Question: I'm looking for a way to restrict access to specific tickets (NOT by ticket type) that contain NDA protected data, whilst keeping them in the same backlog and iterations as the rest of the tickets related to a project.
We have many different NDA protected customers, so whilst creating a new ticket type per NDA, and restricting access to this, could work, it's not the solution I'm looking for.
Alternatively, I'm barking up the wrong tree, and there is an entirely different and "better way" to support this use-case?
Edit 1 - More info: Let's say I have 1 backlog for a product. It contains only 2 work items. It's important there is only 1 backlog for planning and overview by a product owner.
One of the two work items contains sensitive information only half the development team should have visibility to. How do I keep both tickets in the same backlog and iterations, but hide the sensitive one from some team members?
Thanks in advance for your time!
Regarding permission of work items in a team project, you can set the permission in area and iteration scope, but can’t for specific work items.
So, you need to put these work items in different area and manage permission for this area. Simple steps:
Go to team project admin page
Work=>Areas
Click New/New child, to create a new area.
Click …=>Security, set the permission for the group(s) or user(s)
Click the default team’s settings => Areas
Click + Select areas to add that area in order to show related work items (in that area)
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I'm using the free HubSpot CRM for now. I wrote some scraping code and through the API added over 17k companies and 4k contacts.
There were some errors due to an incomplete understanding of some of the API calls and now I'd like to wipe everything out and start over.
I realize I could run the "Get Recently Created Companies" and for each of the 20 it returns run the delete company API call, then loop it until no companies exist, however this seems like something I shouldn't have to write code to accomplish.
I checked the Academy but the examples showed an interface that didn't match what I see, so it's either outdated or meant for a different version of HubSpot than I have. Didn't find much on Google either.
Anyone else know of an easy solution for this?
HubSpot developer here. I just checked with the folks who run the Contacts and Companies APIs – the best option you have right now is to contact support.
I know that's not the answer you're looking for. We're working on improving things, but it's not there yet.
Ran into this issue myself, needing to delete 8k test the marketing team had generated when we were still playing around with features. Had to reach out to customer support a few times to get the answer as it's not at all intuitive.
On this help page they say that you can mass delete contacts by adding them to a list, using Select All, and then Delete. This doesn't work in cases such as mine though as the pagination only allows you to see up to 100 contacts at a time.
The secret step for now is that you have to go down to the bottom right corner and click on "View the old list manager" (black square button with two arrows that's just to the side of the Help button). In this view Select All really does select every contact in the list so that you can perform a batch delete (or other action) on them all at once.
Summary
Create new list with rules to add the Contacts you want to delete
Switch to the old list manager view (button on bottom right)
Select All
Delete
Tell the confirmation box that yes, you really know what you're doing
Hopefully HubSpot will update their help docs soon and re-add the ability to really select all list items in the new view before they completely remove the option to switch back the old view.
I have a requirement to find a way to archive subsites from a site.
When I say 'Archiving' I mean moving a subsite from one site to another so the end users can still access the subsites and check the history etc.
The main site is a Training site and the subsites are training courses, when these courses have ran there is no need for them to be sat under the training department site and I can envision it becoming confusing with too many of these subsites.
I know I can move them using structure and content in site admin but don't really want end users to be doing that after each course has ran ( we have had over 500 this year!)
Has anyone else faced a similar issue or have any advice to how they would go about it?
Many thanks
Is there a need to retain the subsites? If so, instead of moving the site, perhaps changing the way your users access the sites would be an easier way. You could set up a list with the current classes (assuming you don't have one already) and include a field in that list that links to the course's subsite. Create a view that shows only the current courses so the end users never see the other subsites.
If you don't need to keep the subsites, you should look into some kind of workflow that can kick off when a class expires that deltes the subsite. I'm pretty sure you can't create a workflow with Nintex or SharePoint Designer to move a site to another location, so you may need to code something with C#.
I have just been tasked with overseeing an Office365 Sharepoint team site, and there is a very odd legacy issue that was left unresolved by the last administrator. We have the standard set of groups that you would expect to see (visitors, members, owners) and one of the folks here is in both the Members (contribute) and Owners (full control) permission groups.
However, her ability to access things is... strange. She can view most everything, and add new content to most everything (lists, forms, etc.) But she cannot edit any documents, list items, etc. Nor can she delete items.
Is there a way that her permissions (full control) could be in conflict with another setting? What should I look for to investigate further?
All help will be greatly appreciated, as this is quite mysterious.
Cross-listed at: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/58306/permissions-issues-with-office365-sharepoint-owner-account
You want to look at the document libraries and lists in question, by default they inherit permissions but this can be changed. Select the library and select the permissions icon from the top ribbon to check to see what that particular user's rights are for the items in question.
I am new to phpBB3. I have just installed phpBB3 on my localhost. I have gone through it. I am getting one problem that if I want to create two types of forum
1. Pre Sales which can be seen by any visitor or visitors who are logged in
2. Post Sales which can be accessed by only the visitors who have paid for that
please guys is there any solution for that?
For the Pre sales forum, you don't have to do anything special. Guests will be able to see that forum by default.
For Post Sales, you will create your forum, but do not copy permissions from any other forum when you do so. Then log into your Administrator Control Panel, select the Forums tab. On the left select Forum Permissions.
You have two options at this point. If you are placing users into groups, for example a customer group that can access Post Sales, you will use the Groups column. Otherwise, you'll be managing each individual user. I'm making the assumption that you will want to do this by group.
Select the group(s) you want to have access to this forum from the bottom right box. Click Add Permissions and they will appear in the upper right box. Now highlight all of them and select Edit Permissions.
From the next screen you can customize what they can('t) do on this specific forum. The easiest is to select one of the preconfigured options (Standard, Standard+Polls, etc), but if you want to can manage specific permissions as well.
I have 2 1/2 years experience of VB.Net, mostly self taught, so please bear with me if I seem rather noobish still and do not know some of the basics. I would recommend you grab a cup of tea before starting on this, as it appears to have got quite long...
I currently have a rather large application (VB.Net website) of over 15000 lines of code at the last count. It does not do retail or anything particularly complex like that - it is literally just a wholesale viewing website with admin frontend, catalogue / catalogue management system and pageview system.
I don't really know much about how .Net applications work in the background - whether they are all loaded on the same thread or if each has its own thread... I just know how to code them, or at least like to think I do... :-)
Basically my application is set up as follows:
There are two different areas - the customer area and the administration frontend.
The main part of the customer frontend is the Catalogue. The MasterPage will load a list of products but that's all, and this is common to all the customer frontend pages.
I tend to work on only one or several parts of the application at a time before uploading the changes. So, for example, I may alter the hierarchy of the Catalogue and change the Catalogue page to match the hierarchy change whilst leaving everything else alone.
The pageview database is getting really quite large and so it is getting rather slow when the application is first requested due to the way it works.
The application timeout is set to 5 minutes - don't know how to change it, I have even tried asking this question on here and seem to remember the solution was quite complex and I was recommended not to change it, but if a customer requests the application 5 minutes after the last page view then it will reload the application from scratch. This means there is a very slow page load whenever it exceeds 5 minutes of inactivity.
I am not sure if this needs consideration to determine how best to split the application up, if at all, but each part of the catalogue system is set up as follows:
A Manager class at the top level, which is used by the admin frontend to add, edit and remove items of the specified type and the customer frontend to retrieve a list of items of the specified type. For example the "RangeManager" will contain a list of product "Ranges" and will be used to interact with these from the customer frontend.
An Item class, for example Range, which contains a list of Attributes. For example Name, Description, Visible, Created, CreatedBy and so on. The form for adding / editing loops through these to display relevant controls for the administrator. For example a Checkbox for BooleanAttribute.
An Attribute class, which can be of type StringAttribute, BooleanAttribute, IntegerAttribute and so on. There are also custom Attributes (not just datatypes) such as RangeAttribute, UserAttribute and so on. These are given a data field which is used to get a piece of data specific to the item it is contained in when it is first requested. Basically the Item is given a DataRow which is stored and accessed by Attributes only when they are first requested.
When one item is requested from a specific manager is requested, the manager will loop through all the items in the database and create a new instance of the item class. For example when a Range is requested from the RangeManager, the RangeManager will loop through all of the DataRows in the Ranges table and create a new instance of Range for each one. As stated above it simply creates a new instance with the DataRow, rather than loading all the data into it there and then. The Attributes themselves fetch the relevant data from the DataRow as and when they're first requested.
It just seems a tad stupid, in my mind, to recompile and upload the entire application every time I fix a minor bug or a spelling mistake for a word which is in the code behind (for example if I set the text of a Label dynamically). A fix / change to the Catalogue page, the way it is now, may mean a customer trying to view the Contact page, which is in no way related to the Catalogue page apart from by having the same MasterPage, cannot do so because the DLL is being uploaded.
Basically my question is, given my current situation, how would people suggest I change the architecture of the application by way of splitting it into multiple applications? I mean would it be just customer / admin, or customer / admin and pageviews, or some other way? Or not at all? Are there any other alternatives which I have not mentioned here? Could web services come in handy here? Like split the catalogue itself into a different application and just have the masterpage for all the other pages use a web service to get the names of the products to list on the left hand side? Am I just way WAY over-complicating things? Judging by the length of this question I probably am, and it wouldn't be the first time... I have tried to keep it short, but I always fail... :-)
Many thanks in advance, and sorry if I have just totally confused you!
Regards,
Richard
15000 LOC is not really all that big.
It sounds like you are not pre-compiling your site for publishing. You may want to read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1y1404zt(v=vs.80).aspx
Recompiling and uploading the application is the best way to do it. If all you are changing is your markup, that can be uploaded individually (e.g. changing some html layout in an aspx page).
I don't know what you mean here by application timeout, but if your app domain recycles every 5 minutes, then that doesn't seem right at all. You should look into this.
Also, if you find yourself working on various different parts of the site (i.e. many different changes), but need to deploy only some items in isolation, then you should look into how you are using your source control tools (you are using one, aren't you?). Look into something like GIT and branching/merging.
Start by reading:
Application Architecture Guide