Hi, hopefully someone has come up against this problembefore...

I have a PDMW Workgroup vault set up with a Web Portal configuredto allow remote access for suppliers and our factory productionline.

I currently use 4 Lifecycle statuses:
- Design
- Release
- Prototype
- Approved

and have 3 User Groups:
- View All
- View Approved and Prototype
- View Approved Only

I want to set it up so that my suppliers have View Approved Onlyaccess and my production line has View Approved and Prototypeaccess.

So far it has been very hit and miss with users being able to viewall or nothing depending on which settings I play with.

There seem to be many layers of settings that control accessincluding Project Access and it's difficult to know which settingsoveride which other settings. As we only have 1 seat of SolidWorkswe don't use project access and I am an Administrator with accessto all projects, so maybe this is something to do with the problem?

If someone has sucessfully set this up before, please could youpoint me in the right direction?

Many thanks,
JackSolidworksWorkgroup Pdm