New fields used for publishing Staffing Scenarios should not be visible in Clarity UX

Products

• Clarity PPM On Premise
• Clarity PPM SaaS

Issue/Introduction

Summary: Newly introduced fields that provide information used for publishing Staffing Scenarios should not be visible in Clarity UX.  We did not intend for these fields to appear across the application outside of the Staffing Scenarios Publishing activities. 

• You will see the following 3 fields will appear for pages across Clarity. 
• Outside of the Staffing Scenario, these fields will be blank. 
  • Staff Object 
    • Staff Scenario Changed 
  • Investment Objects 
    • Staff Scenario Investment Changed 
    • Staff Scenario Publish Status 

Recommendation:

• Do NOT use these fields. 
• The administrator can 'hide' or 'secure' these fields across Clarity by using the following steps for all users that will NOT use the new Staffing Scenarios Publish feature. 
• If you have users that will use the new 'Publish' feature, it is important to configure this correctly so that it does NOT interfere with the ability to publish a Staffing Scenario.
  • Go to Administration, Attributes 
  • Mark all 3 fields 'Secure' in the Staff Object and all Investment Objects 
  • Ensure that any user with the new 'Staffing Scenario - Publish - Owner' or 'Staffing Scenario - Publish - All' access rights are granted 'Access View' to the fields. 
    • No need to grant 'Access Edit' to the fields as they are read-only fields.  
    • These users will need to have access so that they are not prevented from using the 'Publish' action by generating (API-1005) FLS errors. 
    • However, this means that these users will see the fields across the Clarity UX outside of the Staffing Scenarios - which does not provide any value because the values will be blank.  

Environment

Clarity Release 16.3.1 - Staffing Scenarios 

Cause

DE165681  

Resolution

DE165681 - We intend to mark these fields 'Private' which will remove them from the Clarity UX. 

Planned and Targeted to be fixed in Release 16.3.1 Patch #1 (16.3.1.1) and the next Release 16.3.2 

Additional Information

For more information on the new Staffing Scenarios 'Publish' feature, refer to the Release 16.3.1 online documentation