Administrator privileges upgrade#
Administrator privileges software#

In theВ Jira Software documentation, most configuration options are described as beingВ restricted to either Jira administrators, project administrators, or board administrators. Board usage permissions are derived from project permissions. For example, creating sprints, ranking issues, etc.

Board usage permissions cover functionality for the usage of a board.Board administration can be assigned to groups or users. For example, changing columns, customizing cards, etc. Board administration permissions cover functionality for changing the configuration of a board.This diagram illustrates how permissions are assigned to users:Д«oard permissionsВ can be divided into two partsВ - board administration permissions and board usage permissions. Permissions can be assigned to groups or to project roles/and or issue roles. For example, issue security permissions can let you set up types of issues that can only be seen by project admins or users in specific groups. Issue security permissionsВ - Organized into security schemes, these allow the visibility of individual issues to be adjusted (within the bounds of the project's permissions).There are lots of project-level permissions you can set to control what users can do within a project. While project admins can assign users to a project, they can't customize the permission schemes for a project. who can see the project's issues, create, edit and assign them). Project permissionsВ - Organized into permission schemes, these apply to projects (e.g.Global permissionsВ - These apply to applications as a whole, not individual projects (for example, whether users can see the other users in the application).There are three types of permissions in Jira applications, and they range from the high-level to granular: These permissions can differ between applications. All Jira applications allow a variety of permissions: from whether users can create new projects to whether a user can see a specific type of comment on an issue. Permissions are settings within Jira applications that control what users within those applications can see and do.

Administrator privileges upgrade#

To take advantage of Jira's powerful project permission management features, upgrade your plan. Find out more about how project permissions work in Free plans. You can't edit project permissions or roles on the Free plan for Jira Software or Jira Work Management, and you can't configure issue-level security on any Free plan (including Jira Service Management). This page describes the different types of permissions and access rights that can be set up in Jira applications.