Project role defaults

Question

Hey,

If I go to Users and roles in a specific project, I see 3 default project roles: administrators, developer, and users.

my question is if I don't associate users with these roles the default is that these roles are empty or that they associate with the default groups: administrators, developers, and users?

What happens if I associate users to a role the default values is overwritten?

Thank you,

Shani

Justin Garrett · Answer

Hey guys,

Do ALL of the project roles defined in the project role browser get added to each and every project created? It doesn't look like every role is added but trying to work out how this is controlled is eluding me!

Not sure if Shani's question is actually the same as mine tbh...

I want to be able to change which project roles are added to each project by default.

The documentation doesn't seem to explain this part very well imo

Thanks in advance!

Shani Mamka · Answer

Thank you, Nic that was very helpful.

by the way, it's under admin->system->project roles.

So if I want to change this default project roles members, I should specify project roles for each project?

For example, if I add a user to project role administrator for a specific project it will then overwrite the default members for an administrator?

Thank you,

Shani

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

It's between "these roles are empty or that they associate with the default groups: administrators, developers, and users".

Jira makes no association between roles and groups that might happen to have the same name.

Jira does however have "default members" for roles.  If you go to admin -> roles, then you'll find the list of roles has space for default users and groups.  These are used only when a new project is created though, and you can remove them after creating the project, they really are just "templates".