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Fishcake
Fishcake

Reputation: 10764

User has does not have permission to be mentioned

We have a TFS user who appears to have the same permissions as a colleague in their team. However this user can't be @mentioned despite having the ability to open and close and otherwise edit the bug that they can't be mentioned in.

The following error is emailed to me following attempting to @mention this user.

@Joe Bloggs cannot be mentioned in the Bug 41729. The user does not have sufficient permissions.

We can't see any differences between a user that can be tagged and one that can't.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6804

Answers (2)

Shane Neuville
Shane Neuville

Reputation: 2177

We were getting this same error.

  • Went into the project settings -> security.
  • Clicked "remove" on that user
  • at which point the "remove" changed into an "undo".
  • Clicked the "undo".

Now we are no longer seeing this error. Seems like something internally just needed to be recombobulated :-)

Upvotes: 3

hross
hross

Reputation: 3671

If you are sure that the user exists and can be mentioned with "Joe Bloggs" then they do not have read permission on the bug you are referring to. You should go back and check what group membership they have in the project.

Upvotes: 0

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