Jira 8 Administration Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

Jira comes with three project roles out of the box—Administrator, Developer, and User. We will first look at how to create a new project role.

Go through the following steps to create a new project role:

1. Navigate to Administration > System > Project roles.
2. Enter the new project role's name and description.
3. Click on the Add Project Role button:

Just like groups, project roles themselves are global in Jira, but their memberships are local to each project.

Once the project role has been created, we can start adding users and groups to the relevant role for each project. To add a new user and/or group to a project role, go through ...