User with 'Application Publisher' permission cannot create environments

Products

• CA Release Automation - Release Operations Center (Nolio)
• CA Release Automation - DataManagement Server (Nolio)

Issue/Introduction

Users with 'Application Publisher' permissions are not allowed to create environments.

There's a requirement for these users to not create releases in environments. The permissions for the user are defined as per the screenshot below:

Environment

CA Release Automation - All versions

Resolution

To be able to create an environment the user needs to have 'Application Owner' rights, since write permissions are needed to make changes at the environment level. This is by design.

Usually, application owners are superusers who have administrative rights across the application. Publishers are different set of users whose sole responsibility is to perform release duties only.