Only licensed Jira users can be added as users in a JSM project. Customers should only be added to the Service Desk Customers role in the project (this happens automatically if you add a new customer from the Customers tab). The new role that was added in admin.atlassian.com is there so you can control the user access settings to give new users access to the portal.
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