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Access Profile creation with JSM Read only access and confluence read/write.

Harshveer Kaur
March 11, 2026

Hi team,

 

We want to give read only access to JSM for some users, is it possible to do it via Atlassian admin?

Currently we have a group created in Atlassian, with JSM And Confluence together. We want to make JSM read only without disrupting Confluence access.


Example:

Group created in Atlassian Admin: Cust_ABC with Confluence and JSM with read/write access. We invite people from Atlassian to have access to both of these.


Project in JIRA:  Project name is ABC. In Jira under people and access we have added Cust_ABC with "Service Desk Customers" role with read/write access.

NOTE : ABC is client name

What we want: 
Users from client side in project ABC go to read only access for JSM but there access for Confluence should remain read/write. 





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Trudy Claspill
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March 11, 2026

Hello @Harshveer Kaur 

Regarding your question about a read-only profile for JSM take a look at my answer on a similar question here:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management/Does-JSM-Read-Only-profile-require-licence-and-we-need-to-pay/qaq-p/3204740#

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Arkadiusz Wroblewski
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March 11, 2026

Hello @Harshveer Kaur 

I think this is usually less about creating one special read-only profile, and more about separating what kind of access the user really needs.

In practice, I would split it like this:

if they only need JSM portal access, that is one model

if they need to open the Jira project itself, that is a different one

if they only need to read Confluence KB articles, that is again a bit different from full Confluence access

So my guess would be: your use case is probably not really one single read-only access profile, but rather a combination of customer access + Jira access + Confluence/KB access.

That is why I would first clarify: do those users only need to submit/view requests and read KB articles, or do they also need to access the actual Jira project?

Because once Jira project access is needed, “read-only” usually does not automatically mean “free.” and then you must play very much with permissions as Jira cloud still don't have native ”Guest” function.

Harshveer Kaur
March 11, 2026

Hi,

So these users should be able to just view requests in JSM. No permission to add comments.

for Confluence, they should have permission read and write both.

Arkadiusz Wroblewski
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March 12, 2026

@Harshveer Kaur 

In your case i will look directly on provided Link from @Trudy Claspill as she explained it there very Precise.

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