Introducing editor permissions for Goals

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Now you can decide who edits your team’s most important goals. With editor permissions for the Goals app, you control who can update strategic content, while everyone else can safely view, follow, and connect work. The new Goals permissions works like experiences you know from other Atlassian products.

Goals can be linked to focus areas in Focus, making it easy to see how your business outcomes connect to your enterprise strategies.

What’s new

Editor permissions for Goals

You can now explicitly grant editor rights on individual Goals. Only editors can change goal-critical information, while viewers retain the ability to link and follow.

Editors can:

• Manage who else can edit the Goal

• Edit name, description, owner

• Post and update status, score, and target details

• Add and modify metrics and start date

• Update custom fields, learnings, risks, and decisions

• Archive or change the state of a goal

Viewers can still:

• Create and manage links between Goals and Projects, Teams, Sub-goals, and Focus Areas

• Link Jira or Jira Align work items (based on source app permissions)

• Follow Goals and manage their own following preferences

For all existing goals, owners will receive editor access automatically, while others will have view-only access.

View-only by default

Goals are now view-only unless a user is explicitly granted editor permissions. This helps prevent accidental edits and ensures that only trusted curators update strategy content.

A familiar Share experience

The share modal now follows familiar Atlassian experience that you know from Confluence, making it straightforward to find people and set editor access with confidence.

Better control over followers

Both viewers and editors can add and remove followers, giving teams a simple way to manage who stays informed.

When it’s available

Strategy Collection customers using Focus can access these capabilities on December 11, 2025. If you are a Strategy Collection customer and have enabled bundling of features for releases, these capabilities will be not be bundled and released immediately.

[Colton.Kosicek]

Please sign us up :) 

[Carl Hillermann]

Let's get it.

[Hamzah Mohamed]

Hi @Sam Tsubota 

Can you clarify your release note? Do you mean that all Goals users will get this in January, but for now, only Focus users will get this in December?

[Tim Keyes]

Hi @Hamzah Mohamed

That is correct. Available for Focus users now and the wider Goals users outside of Focus in January.

[Hans Ahrens]

Hi @Sam Tsubota , 

Could you tell me when this will become available in January ? 
Next to this does this also mean that we can specifically add viewers to goals instead of as it currently is that the entire organization can see each goal ?

[Hamzah Mohamed]

Hi @Sam Tsubota 

Is this still on track to release January?

[Sam Tsubota]

@Hans Ahrens & @Hamzah Mohamed  If you are a Focus it was rolled out. 

@Hans Ahrens Ever user is a viewer by default. So you won’t have the ability to restrict view access.

[Hamzah Mohamed]

Hi @Sam Tsubota ,

I was referring to my earlier question that @Tim Keyes answered: that the rest of the Goals users should get the feature in January. Is this rolling out slowly, or is it delayed for only Goals users? :)

[Hans Ahrens]

Hi @Sam Tsubota ,

Is there also a plan to make an option to only show goals if you have viewing permissions for the specific goal ?

[Noah Dinlemez]

Our company is looking to implement goals but unfortunately we can only give everyone user-rights or they can't even see the goals. View-rights only would be great! 

When will all this be rolled out for companies that don't use Focus?

[Michiel Schuijer]

We still don't have this on our org, when can we expect it?

Atlassian Support let me know it should be rolled out in January for all customers, but nothing so far, and we really need it to make sure nobody messes with our company-wide goals after we grant access to all users.

[Sam Tsubota]

The roll out to all customers was paused. It was only rolled out to a limited number of Focus customers.

[Hans Ahrens]

@sam is there a plan to continue the rollout or can we enroll into an early acces program?