Jira Licenes details

[DJM]

Hi,

i would like to know details regarding the Jira Licenses and  was going through some of document and in the document it is mention that any user added to group Jira users is will be treated as count for license which is correct.And also it mention Unlimited 'anonymous users' are permitted on all licenses. so my question is any user if not part of Jira users group so where is the question of then access Jira when his/her id is not part of this group Jira Users.In short want to know what is this Unlimited 'anonymous users' are permitted on all licenses. how anonymous user will access Jira when it is not part of Jira core user as per defination

Thanks

DJM

[Alexey Matveev]

You can permit the anonymous user in the project permission scheme. It means that the user will be able to see the project and do actions even without logging. But all actions will be taken from an anonymous user. You will not know who exactly the user was.

[DJM]

Hi,

will not user should get inherited from global setting(permissions) and under what case anyone will add anonymous user in project when it is not reflected in global setting.

so is this need for automation or is it service account in short why anyone will add such user on project scheme and for what purpose this is will be interesting to know

Thanks

DJM

[Alexey Matveev]

the anonymous user is a built-in "user". You do not need to add it to global permissions. the anonymous user means that the user does not log in to Jira. If you want to automate functions, you can distinguish between logged-in user and not logged-in.

I never used anonymous user. The problem is that you will never know who exactly performed an acion in Jira.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Anonymous access can be useful - imagine you have some software and you want to be open about the current list of improvements and bugs.  You would open the bug and improvement tracking project to the world to see without having to log in.  For example jira.atlassian.com is tracking them across the whole Atlassian suite.

But as Alexey says, you really don't want to grant it for much more than "Browse project".  Anything a user can do that writes data really should be trackable, so you would never allow anonymous edit, create, comment and so-on, as you cannot know who the person making the changes is.

(One minor exception - I've recently set up a system where the owners want people without accounts to go through a request process.  We allow anonymous users to create issues in a single project which asks them for their name and business unit to get the access process started)

[DJM]

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation since iam from backgroup of TFS so this look like stakeholder access level in TFS.

one last think so this user need not need to be inherited from the global permission as mention by Alexey so if i add group anyone on the project level this will allow to browse and report the issuse.I want to know the is anyone a built in group in Jira

Regards

DJM

[Alexey Matveev]

Anyone is a built-in group in Jira. You do not need to set it in the global pemission scheme.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I think you need to forget the global permissions, they're confusing you.

When you need to have someone see issues in your project without logging in, grant "browse" permission to the "group" called "anyone" in your project permission scheme.  I would strongly recommend that you do not grant "anyone" anything other than "browse", and possibly "view workflow"

There's no need to look at the global permissions, they do not affect this.

[DJM]

Thank you Alexey and Nic for getting this understand.

Regards

DJM