How do I grant individual users the ability to Archive tasks?

[Viva Chu]

I find the Jira's permission settings and project role settings extremely confusing. How do I assign Archive rights to allow specific users in my organization to Archive tasks from appearing in their project boards.

Ideally I'd like to assign this right to a Group of Team Leads. We are on Premium plan and ChatGPT says there is an Archive Task privilege but I cannot find that anywhere. 

[Brant Schroeder]

@Viva Chu Welcome to the Atlassian community

You need to ensure that the user has the proper project permissions.  You can learn more here about archive permissions. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/archive-an-issue/ 

[Ana Livia Rocha Silva]

Hi @Viva Chu 

Do you want to archive tasks or just remove then from their board?

• To remove the tasks from a board you can change the board filter or use quick filters;
• To allow users to archive issues you need to give them the 'Archive Issues' permission: Project setting > Access > Project Permission. There you can grant the necessery permission to the users/group.

I hope this clarify things for you.

Kind regards,

Ana

[Shalini Pradhan]

Hello @Viva Chu ,

Good day! Welcome to Atlassian Community :)

Inorder to be able to archive issues/tasks in a project, a user should have 'Archive Work Item' permission on the concerned project.

You can navigate to the permission scheme ( settings -> Work items -> Permission Schemes )  which is associated with the concerned project and locate 'Archive Work items' permission and add users/user groups/roles accordingly.

Article: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/permissions-for-company-managed-projects/ 

Hope that helps :)

Thank you!

[Lori Brown]

In a company-managed project there is an "Archive Issues" entry in a Permissions scheme - you'd want to edit which Role/Group is in there. (Settings > Work Items > Work Item attributes > Permissions schemes". Are you using a company-managed or team-managed project?