TeamPortal: Missing Base Functionality

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Recently, I've had the pleasure of integrating TeamPortal. We found that there were a number of short-comings. Here are the most obvious that we found:
1) Each user can only be assigned to one branch and one workarea. You don't have the option of switching workareas.
2) Group tasks will not work within TeamPortal because there is no mechanism to take ownership. However, user tasks do work.
3) CGI tasks will not work within TeamPortal without a great deal of customization to the TeamPortal code. This includes the MetaTagger CGI task.

The workarounds for these short-comings are kloodgey. The workaround for #2 is to create a set of parallel user tasks which will act as the "Take Ownership" tasks. Then have an external task which determines which user task did the transition and who owns that task. Then it changes the ownership and activates the group task.

Anyone else had similar experiences with TeamPortal? Any helpful solutions?

- Jason