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This must be doable: give an external vendor access to specific work items in one project. Nothing m

Tim Kersjes
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September 27, 2025

I'm at my wits' end here. This must be f'ing doable but I can't for the life of me figure out how. So, please let me know if I'm asking for something impossible or unreasonable.

The title says it all: I have one specific project (my company's JIRA has many projects like, but this is mine). I'm getting a third party vendor to help out with some of the tickets (or work items as they're called now). All I want is to be able to have these vendor people sign in, and then only have access to very specific work items. Either I assign these to them, or I set up some work item security, etc.

But here's the thing: I can't get it to work. All the work item security/project settings/group access settings/whathaveyounot have been fiddled with, and I can't get it done. My external guest account (hotmail account) can still access all the tickets and browse all the projects. I've tried setting up a very specific group for the vendor users, I've tried removing the test account from all sorts of groups that are listed under permissions to browse etc.

Sure I can't be the first person in the history of JIRA to have this use case?! Wtf am I doing wrong here? Which setting am I missing, what obvious thing is going right over my head?

TL;dr: I just need to be able to give access to external vendor accounts on very specific tickets in one specific project. That's it. Please help!

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John Funk
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September 27, 2025

Hi Tim - Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

You will need to use issue level security. Here is a link to the guidance:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/create-security-levels-for-issues/

Now, having said that, if it is a JSM project and you want the person to do work in that project, they will need to have an Agent license if they don't already. 

Tim Kersjes
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September 27, 2025

Thanks John.  I've already tried this, but it doesn't stop the vendor agents from being to able to browse other projects etc. 

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