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Create project permissions

Sam Hall

I've installed a Jira evaluation but haven't had time to read the manual. Can someone help me figuring out how to set up a global role with permissions to create and manage new projects?

I've created a role called Project Manager but I can't see how to assign privlidges to that role and the Global Permissions page freaks me out. I just need to get this done so I can get it out to the users to evaluate without having to grant them Administrator access.

Establishing Jira has been on my todo list for a long time, I've just been too busy to spend any time on it but this is the last hurdle.

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danielwester

We've created the Project Creator for JIRA that might fit your need: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.wittified.jira.project-creator

You (or somebody with JIRA Administration access) will have to create a set of templates that your Project Managers(or anyone you give access to create) can choose to create new projects from.

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Dieter

You can't assign global permissions to a project role. You need to create a group and assign the global permission "JIRA Administrators" to that group as described at https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Global+Permissions Then you add your evaluation admins to the group

Sam Hall

Thank you very much!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Bear in mind that this will give them a lot of system level permissions as well as "create project" - in effect, you will be making them Administrators...

Sam Hall

Thanks Nic, if there's an alternative please post your answer. This is good enough for me for now. If Jira isn't flexible enough to support users that can simply create and manage their own projects at will then I'll check out the webservice API to work around this by the time we go live with it.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Short answer, no, it won't work, you will make a mess.

It's not the project creation and maintenance I'd worry about - as I already said, having a set of users who can create projects and pick their configuration is not really an issue (only other thing I'd add is some form of reporting to allow system admins to look for unused or low-volume projects for a bit of housekeeping)

It's this bit:

maintain their own little world within the tool without interacting with someone elses world without permission

That's where it becomes a total mess. If you have administration rights, you can create fields. In any project you want via screens, issue contexts, field configurations. You can amend schemes, which are used by many projects, not necessarily just the ones you "own". This list goes on and on.

My advice when you're looking at the self-serve side is to create something that would let your people create projects and pick from the schemes, but retain the maintenance of all the schemes, fields, workflows etc in a small team who work closely togehter and understand the fact that a "minor tweak for Project A" could hit every user in the system

Sam Hall

Having now had a detailed look at the webservice API, I now see it's possible to build some software to allow users to set up their own custom Permissions Scheme and allow them to create projects under that scheme without the need to grant them any special privileges within Jira. Looks like Jira can meet our requirements by the time we go live if we can spare a weeks worth of development effort.

Happy clients because they can do their thing without asking permission all the time. Happy IT guys because we get to have fun developing some software instead of having to do a bad job of Jira administration.

Domain Admin3

I need Project Managers to be able to "Create Projects" but I do not want to give them Administrator priviledges. Surely there is a way to do this ? Please help.

Giving Project managers the "Administrator" role would require a much higher level of training, review and backup as data can be erased, fields altered, etc.

Currently this situation is a big pain because we only have a couple of system admins and it is tedious to have to create projects on behelf of project managers ... the only alternative being to make numerous system administrators.

Domain Admin3

Wow, that that is disappointing and thanks for your quick reply Sam. I have been trawling through the settings as I thought it was my lack of understanding rather than a system deficiency.

Hopefully they will address this.

Sam Hall

Yeah you can't do it or else the developement effort to get it working through webservice/plugin/hackery is pretty significant.

danielwester

We've created the Project Creator for JIRA that might fit your need: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.wittified.jira.project-creator

You (or somebody with JIRA Administration access) will have to create a set of templates that your Project Managers(or anyone you give access to create) can choose to create new projects from.

Domain Admin3

Thank you Daniel, this is exactly what we are after however we use the on-demand version so this is not compatible. Jira should buy this from you as this should form part of the core system.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

This plugin is an excellent way to fill the gap - your (full) Jira admins create the schemes, and will be aware of the "minor tweak in scheme can make a total mess of everything", but the project admins can't do that. They can create projects and choose from (hopefully) safe schemes for everything.

It avoids the utter mess I've had to clean up so... many... times...

Sam Hall

Nice work Daniel!

SkyIsFalling

If you want the ability to assign "create project" permission to someone *without* making them a full-on Jira administrator (which I think is a reasonable demand/use-case), go and vote for this missing functionality here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-1431

Lori_Davis

Hi Sam Hall,

I know this was 7 years ago, but we are having this exact same issue - we don't want to give full admin rights but want our PM's to be able to create projects in the classic template. Did you end up developing a solution to work with the webservice API? I'm very interested if you did. You may email me at ldavis@visionworks.com

Thanks,

Lori Davis

Sam Hall

Hi Lori,

The short answer is no, we just gave people Jira admin access. I emailed you the long answer

Cheers,

Sam

Mariami

Hello, I'm new here. I face the same problem and I'm a bit confused about Jira permissions. I have created default permissions for project managers and developers, but I want to give project managers permission to create projects and don't want to give them full administration permissions to project managers.

2. Is it possible that project managers and developers can see only their own projects( the ones they have created and are working on).

Thank you in advance

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No. You have to be a Jira or System admin to create projects.

Yes, you can limit people to their own projects. You will have to modify the permissions and user memberships so that people are not automatically granted access, but have to be added to the project or group before they can see the projects.

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