Does deleting the project release the project key

[Jari Romo]

We are taking could based JIRA in use at our company. Some of the earlier admins (already left) have been trying out things and create a projects with real project names and therefore crating also Project Keys with real content. Now this was found and brought to my attention. He was using real project name and Key and therefore we have a problem. He also tried out different project types with real names and project keys.

Now my problem is that I have one project having wrong project type. All our projects are Software - Company Managed but this problematic one is Software - Team-managed. We should now get actual project created and planned with correct project key.

I wanted to change Project Key, cannot do for some reason. Change the project type, cannot do as was explained to be difficult.

So my question is can I just delete project which is created wrongly and save the project key by that way. If we need to change the project key it would have major impact to company naming rules.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The permissions are not that granular.  You have "full root access", "application admin" and then you're down to project/space administration. 

It sounds like you probably need project/space admin on the pieces you are interested in, but you're not going to get workflow access - you need to be an application or root admin for that.

You'll need to talk to your administrators to work out how you can do this sort of thing - develop workflows on dev systems and ask them to promote them, become an application admin yourself, etc.