how to hide a kanban board for certain user groups or project role?

[Saad Ahmad]

Is there a way to hide a kanban board from a certain user groups or project role?

We have users from different business departments, and we've clubbed them in user groups e.g. 

Business Development, Finance, etc.

at permission scheme. we've given permission to a project role i.e. 'Business Users'

In our project, we have mapped all these user groups to a project role called 'Business Users'


We have boards for each department, and we want the board to be visible to the particular department. e.g. Finance kanban board shouldn't be visible to users who are in Business development user group.

We've an additional requirement, where we want the epic to be hidden from other departments. only the department itself should be able to see their epic. At each epic, we are linking the department by leveraging a custom field called 'Department'.

How can we achieve it?

[Sanam Malleswari · Accepted solution]

Hi @Saad Ahmad

How Jira permissions will work

• Jira boards are just views of filters (queries).

• Visibility of a board is controlled by the filter’s sharing settings.

• Visibility of issues (like epics) is controlled by issue security.

So, you need to handle both filter sharing and issue visibility.

Please let me know, if you require complete process to configure.