Using project functionalities (like security) in my plugin without creating any project

smhf97

Hi everyone!

I want to use some of Jira’s functionality (like security (permissions…), issue workflows, reports, …) in my plugin, without creating a project for it.
How can I use these functionalities outside a project? Can I use issue workflows at global level? Can I define a permission scheme with custom permissions and use it without assigning it to a project (so that Jira handles security automatically)?

Can I create a singleton project so I would be sure that there's only one instance of it?

Thanks!

 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Mostly, you do not, as it does not make a lot of sense. 

A workflow is a process that an issue in a project follows, by definition, it's for an issue (and an issue can only exist in a project, there are no global issues).  Issue security and project permissions define who can and cannot see or perform actions in a project.

You can define schemes and their artefacts that are not used by any projects, but there's no use for them, as their functions are all about project and issue usage.

Reports do not have projects, although some of them do take a project as a simple parameter (most of them take the more flexible option of JQL, and the simple parameter really leads to "project = X" as the underlying JQL).  A plugin providing a report does not refer to any project directly, it usually asks, or runs in the context of the current project.