Edit groups in transition

[Junaid Shah]

Hi,

I'm trying to hand over a single project to a team leader, and would like to make them an account where they can manage users and user groups. I've researched and apparently its not possible to do this through the permissions or any other method.. So is it possible through a workflow? perhaps have a Issue Edit User, with a transition allowing the Admin to add existing users into groups?

I really do not want to give full JIRA-Admin rights to a single user and would love if maybe this could work..

Thank you.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Correct, groups are maintained at an admin level.

There is a very simple way to delegate the effective user management though.  Stop trying to do it with groups and use roles instead.  Your project admins can maintain who is in a role on a project-by-project basis.

If you really need to maintain users and groups, then yes, you could construct workflows for handling it, but you'll need code (in post functions) that deliberately bypasses the security for the admins, and you'll need to be careful not to break the security (e.g. don't let your project admins put people in the admin groups)

[Junaid Shah]

Would a Project Admin without JIRA-Admin rights be able to see and add people to these roles? Sorry I've never really used roles so my knowledge is limited on them.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, that's exactly what roles are for - delegating "who can do what in my project" to the project owners Whilst an admin has to set up roles globally (Jira ships with admin, users and developers - I often add "testers" and "authorisers") and set the permission schemes up to use them, once they've done that, the project-admins can put whoever they like in the roles in their projects.

[Junaid Shah]

And where do they manage the users in those Roles as project admins, under the same options as Administration > User Management > Roles?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No. User management is the System level admin section. For Projects, you go into the project admin screen for that project. Same way that a project admin has the right to maintain versions and components, they have the right to maintain users and groups in roles.

[Junaid Shah]

Okay thank you!