How to have a user manage sprints and other users view all their tasks.

[Jacob Dwyer]

I am running into a problem with the manage sprint permission on a board. The team who owns the board has the filter set up to search for all tasks assigned to a group of users. This is causing the board to filter for all projects in our instance.

The problem is a non-admin user needs to manage sprints on the board but is unable to because they don't, and shouldn't, have the manage sprint permission for every project in the instance. I asked about changing the board filter query, but the owner informed me the filter was specifically set up this way so the user can view all of their tasks across all projects in one place.

My question is two fold:
1) Is there a way for my user to manage sprints on this board without changing the filter and without giving them unnecessary access.
2) Is there a way for a user to view all of their assigned tasks in one place, like on a board?

Thank you,
Jacob Dwyer

[Alexey Matveev]

For the first question it is not possible. You need to give users the manage sprint permissions.

For the second question you can make a board with a query like this

assignee = currentUser()

[Jacob Dwyer]

Thanks for the response. My trouble is when I make a board query such as assignee = currentUser() it filters for all projects in my instance. This then means if someone wanted to manage a sprint on that board they would need to have the manage sprint permission for every project. 

Addressing the second question, is there an easy way for a user to view all of their tasks in one place?

[Alexey Matveev]

If you want a user to be able to manage sprints then you should give the proper permissions for the user. That is what permission are for. The proper permission is  the manage sprint permission.

Beside the board, users can view all their tasks in filters or dashboards.

[Jacob Dwyer]

I know manage sprint is the proper permission but I thought that permission was assigned on a per project basis? So if I have a board that filters for all projects, a user that wants to manage sprints on that board will have to have the manage sprint permission for all projects that in that board. I don't want to give that user manage sprint permission for all projects because then they can affect sprints in projects that they don't belong to. 

[Alexey Matveev]

You have no choice unfortunately. That is how Jira permissions work. If there are issues from multiple projects in the board, then you should give the manage sprint permissions for all the projects.