Adding users to the "Reporter" field that aren't JIRA users or you don't want them to know they have JIRA access..

Andrew Morin

Okay I would like to think someone out there has done something similar to what I am asking. We develop an internally used application. Licensing is not an issue. I have an internal AD group with ~130 users. We would like to be able to put these users in the "Reporter" field for some tracking and reporting that development managers would like to see. I run JIRA in private mode and have a lot of projects (80+). I believe that you still can't use active directory groups in JIRA so right now the only solution I have is the following.

1. Create accounts for the 130 users (the ldap tool doesn't appear to have the ability to drill down to a group and I don't want to add all ldap users.)

2. Place them in a unique JIRA group.

3. I think giving the group "Browse Project" should be enough so they would be visible to the actual user who would be creating these issues in the project.

Questions:

1. Is there any way to make these users available on a per project instance running in "Private" mode?

2. Does anyone have a more elegant solution for adding 130 users other than one at a time using the "Add User" screen?

3. last one is does anyone have a completely different way to deal with this that is escaping me that they would be willing to share?

Cheers

Andrew

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

On point 3, you need to give them "create issue" as well as "browse project"

On your questions

1. Actually, dump point 2, don't put them in a group. Instead, change your permission scheme to say "create = role: user (or something)" then you can place different users into the role in different projects.

2. Not really, unless you're into scripting it with a plugin, Jelly or REST.