Articles by Ian Sparks

Organization Roles

The TrialGrid system is modeled on a hierarchy:

Organization -> URL -> Project -> Draft

At each level of that hierarchy a user can have some permissions which control what they are allowed to do to at that level or below.

All users belong to an Organization. Basically their employer. And at the …

Project Roles consolidated within an Organization

In the Version 90 release (September 6, 2026) we are moving all Project Role definitions from URL level to Organization level.

When customers have more than a handful of URLs in TrialGrid, managing Project Role definitions and keeping them in sync across URLs becomes a real chore and makes license …

Retiring the Project Owner Role

In the Version 88 release (June 21, 2026) we are retiring the Project Owner role in favor of Project Roles.

If you are a Project Owner today, you do not need to do anything. We will automatically migrate you to a Role that has exactly the same permissions, so nothing …