For more information, see Group administrators and Grant a user full administrative access. You must be a group administrator of the group or a Workfront administrator. You must have the following to perform the steps in this article: Workfront plan* If the preference in the moved group is locked at the time of the move, it remains locked, but the group administrator can unlock it now because it is unlocked for the parent group. If you move a group under a group that has an unlocked preference, the moved group is not affected by that preference. If you move a group under a group that has a locked preference, the moved group inherits that preference and it is locked for the moved group. However, when a new subgroup is created, it inherits the preference settings and locked or unlocked state of the group immediately above it. This is parallel to the ability that a Workfront administrator has to lock or unlock a preference for everyone in the system.įor information about how a Workfront administrator can lock or unlock a preference for all groups in the system, see Lock or unlock project preferences for all groups in the system.Ĭonfiguring an unlocked preference for a group doesn’t affect that preference for any subgroups below the group. When a preference is unlocked, group administrators can reconfigure it for those subgroups. Though you can still reconfigure a preference that you lock for your group, group administrators can’t reconfigure it for groups.Ĭonversely, unlocking a project, task, or issue preference allows group administrators more flexibility to manage the way their groups work with those items. Locking a project, task, or issue preference that you have configured at the level ensures that everyone in your group and in its subgroups is using the same setting for that preference.

Lock or unlock a project, task, or issue preference for subgroupsĪs a group administrator, you can configure and then lock a project, task, or issue preference if a Workfront administrator has unlocked it at the system level.

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