(There's an old thread from 2012 on this issue, but seems to no longer work in modern Jira)
My team would like to create some virtual users in JIRA to assign stories to external entities, eg "Art Outsourcers". I cannot find a way to do this.
Thanks!
It hasn't changed - you need to create actual user accounts and use them as if they were real users, but it doesn't matter if you set their email addresses to distribution lists, their names to things like "Art Outsourcers" and you never actually log in as them.
The bit that has changed a little - dummy users need to be active users, or they won't show up in lists. Still doesn't mean you have to log in as them.
Thanks Nic — but then these users count against our quota, right? That seems to be the main point for virtual users, that since they're not actually "used", we aren't charged for them.
Correct. The main point for "virtual users" is not licencing though, it's to do things without being real people. Ideally, you wouldn't do that at all - all actions should be attributable to users. Atlassian have improved the handling of user accounts and basically disabled your ability to have unlicenced activity accounts, but that's just a side effect of the improvements.
So just to clarify... Today in FogBugz, we have 3 virtual users – BuildMaster Prior Release, Build Master - Current Release, and Build Master - Next Release. As we release to production, we change the email address associated with each of the BuildMaster so that the appropriate person receives email for the release that they are in charge of. This allows developers to automatically assign issues to the correct BuildMaster for a particular release without having to know who that person actually is. Sure - they could need to remember that Sally is the BuildMaster for Current and Fred is the BuildMaster for Next, but why bother? But that's FogBugz. In JIRA, if I'm understanding correctly, each of my 3 BuildMaster "users" would require a license, correct? Thanks!
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