Is it possible to have board specific permissions?

[Grant.Westerholm]

My team is wondering if its possible to have board specific permissions instead of the permissions affecting the entire project.

For example, letting any signed in user comment on our boards cards but not the entire project.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

No, it would not make sense to do this (beyond "can see board").  Boards are not issue containers, there's no way to make permissions for them consistent.

You have to do all of this at the project level, because the projects are the issue containers.  But that includes allowing people to see cards as well as edit, transition, create and the rest.  So, yes, you need to grant the "comment" permission to the people you want to be able to comment on a project level.

It is mostly not about restricting people.  To stop someone editing issues in a project (for example), you don't restrict them, you take away their permission to edit.

There is one restrictive part - you can set up an issue security scheme, which lets people set a security level on an issue.  People who can see the issues in a project can not see (and hence do anything else with) individual issues with a level set if they are not named in the security level.

[Grant.Westerholm]

Okay that makes sense, thank you for your help! Much appreciated.

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

hi @Grant.Westerholm ,

Not really. It is important to understand that boards are just visual representations of a query with some special features, like drag&drop. Now what you could do is to leverage issue security schemes to restrict permissions at the issue level. However I'm not sure this is exactly what you would want.

[Grant.Westerholm]

Hi @Jack Brickey 

Thanks for your response! Does this mean I could add permission for any user to add comments on a specific card even if the project settings don't allow it? Or is it only possible to restrict access and not add it?