Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

Setting up permissions

The first thing you need to do when you start setting up permissions is to try and match the existing Jira permissions to your requirements. In our case, we want to do the following:

• Restrict who can assign issues
• Restrict who can be assigned to an issue
• Disable issues from being moved

Looking at the existing list of Jira permissions, you can see that we can match the requirements with the Assign Issues, Assignable Users, and Move Issues permissions, respectively.

Once you work out what permissions you need to modify, the next step is to work out a strategy to specify users that should be given the permissions. Restricting the Move Issue options is simple. All you have to do is remove the permission for everyone, ...