XP-Dev.com Documentation

User and Project Permissions

This user guide only applies if your account and project is on our new platform, i.e. if your project's URL begins with https://<your-account>.xp-dev.com rather than https://xp-dev.com. If your account is on our old platform, you should be using this user guide instead.

Table of contents:

Users
Project Permissions

Users

Managing Users

On XP-Dev.com, each user that you create is unique to your main account. For example, the user bob on https://company-abc.xp-dev.com is entirely different from user bob on https://company-xyz.xp-dev.com

To manage users, you will need to be an account Owner, and is managed through your account's Users tab:

User's Tab

Creating Users

Head to your account's Users tab
Fill in the Username and Email fields in the form under Create a New User
Click on Create User
An email will be sent to that email address with login details for the newly created user

Create User

User Roles

There are three types of users that you can choose. When a new user is created, they are assigned the User role.

User: these are regular users in your account, and will need to be explicitly permissioned on each project
Administrator: users with this role can:
- Create, administer & delete projects and repositories
- Assign and revoke permissions to/from users on projects under the main account
- Access all projects under the main account as a project administrator
Owner: users with this role have all access as an account Administrator, and additionally:
- Create, edit, manage and delete users under the main account
- Access the main account's payment settings to make payment on orders, and view previous payments including invoices and receipts
- Administer settings for the main account

Changing User Roles

Head to your account's Users tab
Click on the Edit link for the user you'd like to change their role for

Edit User

Change the drop down options under Role to either User, Administrator or Owner
Click on Save User

Edit User Role

Disabling Users

Disabled users won't be able to access any of your projects or repositories and additionally are blocked from logging into their account.

Head to your account's Users tab
Click on the Edit link for the user you'd like to disable

Edit User

Check the box next to Disabled
Click on Save User

Edit User Disable

Disabled users are greyed out on the main users page:

Disabled User

Project Permissions

Note: Project permissions can only be altered by account owners/administrators or project admins.

Permission Types

Repository permissions are inherited from their parent project (except for Project Tracking Readers and Project Tracking Writers). For e.g. a project writer will have write access to any repositories under the project.

There are a number of different permission types that can be assigned to users:

Admins: Project administrators have access to create/delete repositories as well as administer them with respect to configuring them to integrate with various external tools like Twitter, Basecamp, FogBugz, etc. Additionally, project administrators can amend project permissions (add/remove users) as well.
Writers: Writers are users who can make and commit changes to the project (including repositories), and they are not allowed to perform any of the adminstrative tasks like administering repositories or permissions.
Readers: Readers are users who only have read-only access to the project (including repositories) and can't make or commit any changes.
Project Tracking Writers: Project Tracking Writers are users who can make and commit changes to the project (excluding repositories). They are not allowed to perform any of the administrative tasks or access to repositories.
Project Tracking Readers: Project Tracking Readers are users who have read-only access to the project (excluding repositories).

Adding Users to a Project

Select the project's Settings tab and then the Permissions tab. Click on the link at the bottom of the page called Assign Permission to a New User:

Permissions Tab

There are two ways to add a new user to your project:
1. Add an existing user under your main account
  - Select the user you'd like to grant access
  - Pick an access control level
  - Click on Save
2. Invite someone using their email address
  - Just set an email address to send an invitation to your project. Once the new user picks up the invitation (by logging in or registering a new user), he/she will be added immediately to your project.
  - Pick an access control level
  - Click on Invite

Removing Users from a Project

Select the project Settings tab and then the Permissions tab. Click on the link called Delete Permission for the user that you want to remove from your project and confirm the deletion:

Delete Permission

Feel free to contact us if you need any assistance.

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