How do I create a jira project to be read only (browse only)?

Question

I am looking to make all of JIRA Server read-only more than likely in the upcoming months for all users.  I want to set up a project, that is no longer used currently, as browse only for now.  I created a new permissions scheme and set the Browse Projects permission to "Any logged in user" and that's it.  I assigned a project  that permissions scheme.  Is that it? Next Steps?

Sachin_q0v8o8 · Accepted Answer

Hello @Michael Trostle , you did the right thing by creating a new permission scheme and assigning it to the projects.

Next steps:
- You need to manually change the permission scheme on all the existing projects to make them read-only
- For all the new projects you need to manually go into permission scheme and associate them to your read-only permission scheme
- You can change the name of your permission scheme to "Read only Permission Scheme" to make it easier for you when you are associating projects to this scheme
- You can also rename your projects to "Readonly: project a" or "Archive: project a" so that users will know that they are archived.

Note: Browser projects permission will allow users to browse projects and the issues within them.

Best,
Sachin.