Internal and external access

Joe Harmon_y3pgen

I am trying to setup JIRA so that I can provide external access to some partners but in turn restrict what they see.  All using the same JIRA instance.  Everything I am seeing is telling me to create an internal and external group and then add that group to the jira-users.  This has brought up several questions.

(1) How do I add a group to a group?  I can't see a way to add the internal and external group under the user directory section.  I can only see the ability to add users to a group.

(2) What would be great is if I could have anyone who is accessing JIRA via our active directory LDAP connection would automatically be part of the internal group.  And anyone accessing via the JIRA internal directory would be automatically restricted.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

We should start with the basics here.  Atlassian applications are permissive, not restrictive.  You need to think in terms of "let them see X", not "stop them seeing Y".

> I am trying to setup JIRA so that I can provide external access to some partners but in turn restrict what they see.

Give them access to everything generally, but do not give them the lower-level acess to development details.

>How do I add a group to a group?

You don't, because it's nonsense.   Re-read  the question, and the blunt response, hopefully, you will see it the next time