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Does anyone else find the upcoming limitation of 50 grants per permissions scheme as unrealistic?

Tim Bonney
Contributor
July 27, 2026

Starting in September, they are planning on enforcing a limitation to the number of grants per permissions scheme of 50 total grants. I do understand the rationale for this. However, in my opinion, it is completely unrealistic that we could achieve this limitation.

From what I have seen, most of our permission schemes have in the neighborhood of 45 permissions on each. For example, we have one that has 46 permissions on it, which means only 4 of those can have more than 1 grant applied in any one scheme.

Additionally, making it even more unrealistic is the fact that the 'atlassian-addons-project-access' gets automatically applied to each permission by Atlassian if you have any add-on apps (which I assume nearly everyone has at least one of as they are extremely common for expansion of functionality). We did not create this role, we cannot prevent its usage, and in many cases we cannot safely remove it without a negative impact to application functionality. However, once you factor the automatic additional and assignment of this role into the process, it leaves only 5 permissions in total that we are able to self-assign.

I hope we are not the only customers to be in this predicament. Please share your thoughts on this Atlassian-planned restriction. Thanks for your insight.

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Tim Bonney
Contributor
July 27, 2026

Sorry all. I jumped the gun on submitting this. I have just found out from Atlassian that the limit of 50 grants is on each individual permission within a scheme, not a grand total for the entire scheme.

Sorry for any alarm and/or confusion as a result of my premature submission on this discussion group.

Michael Hamilton
July 29, 2026

Noob question but in their vernacular is "Grants" now the new code word for the "Assigned To" count?

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Celina Kincaid
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July 30, 2026

The in app messaging is extremely poor.  I read it the same way you did and was freaking out a bit.  

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Tim Bonney
Contributor
July 31, 2026

@Michael Hamilton

Yes, that is correct. What they are referring to is that each person or group being granted/given access to each permission in the scheme is considered 1 "Grant", and they will only be allowing a maximum of 50 per permission.

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Bill Goetz
Contributor
August 3, 2026

Started seeing a yellow "Starting in September, permissions will be limited to 50 grants" message today in our instance. After selecting the Optimize link it then shows a report with the ### number of grants.

perms scheme calcs.png

If the 50 grants is per project permission type, then Atlassian needs to clarify this in their message. The grant number in the optimize link report also gives the impression I'm way over. As I look at this more objectively, it makes Atlassian sense, but I think a lot of admins are gonna freak out, like Tim and myself. :-P

 

 

 

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