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Introduction

This page outlines the level of permissions exists to restrict access to the App and its functionality. But also additional permissions App create to let non-admin access to some Jira functionality, thus letting admins delegate some controls to individuals.

Restricting Access to the App

There are three levels of Apps permissions, namely 

  • Global Permissions,

  • Board Administration,

  • Board Manage & Readonly Permissions.

Global Permissions

Global App Permissions

Global permissions are created automatically when installing the App. There is ongoing issue with Atlassian when on some sporadic cases Global permissions are not properly populated. In this cases, no one can access the App and Jira Global Administrators need to configure it manually.

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Global permissions are good to decide who can view/access the application. But once you can view/access you can create any Release Board with Projects that are available to you in order to manage releases. Some companies want to restrict such flexibility to have a limits subset of approved release boards. Therefore, we created a special permission - [Release Management - New Release Board Creation] - that allows to specify users/groups that could create boards in Application.

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In Jira by default Components belong to Projects and could be managed by Project Admins only. This overcomplicates cross-project component management. Therefore, most of the Partner Apps that have a functionality for cross-project component management are making all the changes in App-context allowing to override Project Admin permissions.

To give Jira Global Administrators control over it we created a special permission - [Release Management - Global Classic Component Management] - that allows to specify users/groups that could change Components from Release Management w/o being Admin for corresponding Jira Projects. The scope of such permission applies only to the projects listed for the board.

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Board Administration Permissions

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  • Users of projects in board 

    • This option grants Board Manage, Readonly permission to all users who have permission to view projects added to the board. 

  • Users of projects

    • Board Manage, Readonly permission is granted to all users who have permissions to browse selected projects. 

  • Users and groups

    • Board Manage, Readonly permission is granted to specified Jira Users and groups.

Permissions for Non-Admins

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Some functionality in Jira - like creating/editing Versions and Releases - available only Jira/Project Admins. This is not very flexible when you have multiple teams ns projects and you run cross-project release management or need to sync components cross project.

Therefore, we introduced 2 additional permissions, namely:

  • Project level Release Management

  • and Global Component Management

to let non-Admins to create/edit versions and components. This gives admins a bit more flexibility to delegate this function to certain groups and unlock engineering teams on their execution.

Versions/Releases Management Permissions

To let non-admins create / edit releases in Jira (delegate this role to certain group of people) you need to navigate to Project Settings

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You can either change the default schema or create an “escalated“ one (recommended).

Click Action\Edit Permissions.

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Scroll to find [Release Management - Project Versions Management] and click Update

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Now you can assign this permission to either individual, role or group …

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Click Save.

Note

Note: the above applies only to Release Management App you still can’t create/edit release using Jira standard functionality of you are not project admin.

Classic Components Management Permissions

In Jira by default Components belong to Projects and could be managed by Project Admins only. This overcomplicates cross-project component management. Therefore, most of the Partner Apps that have a functionality for cross-project component management are making all the changes in App-context allowing to override Project Admin permissions.

To give Jira Global Administrators control over it we created a special permission - [Release Management - Global Classic Component Management] - that allows to specify users/groups that could change Components from Release Management w/o being Admin for corresponding Jira Projects. The scope of such permission applies only to the projects listed for the board.

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Note

Note: the above applies only to Release Management App you still can’t create/edit components using Jira standard functionality of you are not project admin.

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