I’m tweaking a PDM template before upgrading from PDM 2019 to PDM 2025 SP2. Somewhere between 2019 and 2025 the permissions system for files/folders was made more fine-grained, which is great. However, I’m having a problem with one of them.
My template creates a project folder with 7 subfolders. These subfolders should not be altered by members of the Engineering group in any way. They do just about anything inside any of the subfolders, but they should not be allowed to rename, move or delete any of the seven. Seems simple enough.
In the template editor under Files and Folders I should select each of the 7 folders, right click and select Properties. On the Group Rights tab I should select the Engineering group and check checkboxes for the following permissions:
- Add file
- Add folder
- Checkout file
- Delete file
- Move file
- Read file contents
- Recover files from recycle bin
- Rename file
The following checkboxes should NOT be checked
- Delete folder
- Move folder
- Rename folder
- A bunch of other permissions that aren’t relevant (I think)
What I’m seeing is that any attempt to uncheck the Rename folder checkbox doesn’t stick. I can uncheck it and select OK:
but if I go back into the folder properties, it’s checked again:
I can go into the Group settings in the admin tool and browse to a project created with the template and remove the Rename folder permission from the subfolders, but that’s a bunch of work and is exactly the type of problem templates are supposed to address.
Am I missing something or is this a bug?