JIRA enterprise - permissions to update workflows in project

Question

Is it possible to give permissions to update workflows in a specific project? Vs. giving global admin permissions?

If not, how are people managing workflows? Each of our project teams has a need to adjust their workflows and it's painful to always have to pull in an administrator to pair with to update and test a workflow.

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

To learn more about the Extended Project Admin feature I recommend this course from the Atlassian University

Extended Project Admin in Jira Data Center

If you need help understanding how to manage permissions in general I recommend this course:

Managing Permissions in Jira Data Center

Jahyen Chung · Answer

Thanks Trudy,

Is there a step by step/article for Jira Server on how to grant workflow extended project admin  permissions to a user?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Jahyen Chung

Welcome to the Atlassian community!

Are you working with Jira Cloud or Jira Server/Data Center? If your URL is similar to this you are using Jira Cloud:

something.atlassian.net

In Jira Cloud there is a project architecture called Team Managed projects. That architecture does not support quite all the same functionality of Company Managed projects and the customizations available there. However it does enable the Project Administrator the ability to manage their own customizations and have those customizations available and impacting only their one project.

If you are working with Jira Server/Data Center then your options are more limited. There is a concept there called Extended Project Admin permissions which can give a Project Admin permission to modify the workflow for their project under limited circumstances.