How do I grant individual users the ability to Archive tasks?

Question

I find the Jira's permission settings and project role settings extremely confusing. How do I assign Archive rights to allow specific users in my organization to Archive tasks from appearing in their project boards.

Ideally I'd like to assign this right to a Group of Team Leads. We are on Premium plan and ChatGPT says there is an Archive Task privilege but I cannot find that anywhere.

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@Viva Chu Welcome to the Atlassian community

You need to ensure that the user has the proper project permissions.  You can learn more here about archive permissions. https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/archive-an-issue/

Ana Livia Rocha Silva · Answer

Hi @Viva Chu

Do you want to archive tasks or just remove then from their board?

* To remove the tasks from a board you can change the board filter or use quick filters;
* To allow users to archive issues you need to give them the 'Archive Issues' permission: Project setting > Access > Project Permission. There you can grant the necessery permission to the users/group.

I hope this clarify things for you.

Kind regards,

Ana

Shalini Pradhan · Answer

Hello @Viva Chu ,

Good day! Welcome to Atlassian Community :)

Inorder to be able to archive issues/tasks in a project, a user should have 'Archive Work Item' permission on the concerned project.

You can navigate to the permission scheme ( settings -> Work items -> Permission Schemes )  which is associated with the concerned project and locate 'Archive Work items' permission and add users/user groups/roles accordingly.

Article: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/permissions-for-company-managed-projects/

Hope that helps :)

Thank you!