Service Desk shareable with other team

[Richard Morgan]

I run a service desk for our IT team and I was wondering if the following is possible. We have several requests that come through to us but are then passed on to another team. We don't want to make that team part of our service desk, but would like them to access the issues that are relevant to them - i.e. only see one of our queues. Is that a possibility?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Richard Morgan 

Queues restrictions are not possible. Not in that specific sense.

• However you could apply an issue security scheme with certain security levels so as to distinguish which issue your team can view, and which issue can be viewed by the other team member
• Set the corresponding security levels to all issues
• Now, you could create a new queue just for them, but this could possible be obsolete, since they will be able to view only the issues with the specific security level.

Read more here:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-security-schemes/

Hope the above helps!

[Richard Morgan]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ Thanks for this. I am struggling through it. I created an issue security level for anyone in the new group. I created a queue for them, but am still unsure how to apply that security level just to that queue so that new group can only see that queue.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

You don't apply the security level on the queue. You apply it on issue types via workflow (or jira automation). E.g.

• When you create an issue of type "Task" (which you use to create a specific request type)
• Apply this specific security level
• Then you have to find the way to change that security level to another one, which will satisfy your condition. E.g. you transition the issue to 2nd level support (meaning you pass it to the other team), and via that specific transition you apply the second level, which grants issue visibility to the second team.

[Richard Morgan]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ OK, understood. But how do I apply a security level to an issue type? It is not straightforward any of this.

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Richard Morgan there is a comprehensive documentation here https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/configure-issue-security-schemes/

[Richard Morgan]

@Alex Koxaras _Relational_ That's the one you referenced before. Unfortunately it does not help with my question: it does not explain how to associate an issue security scheme with a certain issue type!

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Richard Morgan if you have read the documentation you would know that:

• You can apply manually a security level to an issue 
• You can set a default one in the issue security scheme (all issues will have by default this level)

Apart from the above, to apply a specific security level based on issue type you can: 

• create a jira automation to edit the issue on creation and apply the corresponding security level based on the issue type (if/then/else)
• create a post function to each workflow of all issue types you want to impose a security level, with which you edit the issue and apply that level

[Richard Morgan]

Thank you @Alex Koxaras _Relational_ 

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

@Richard Morgan kindly mark my answer as accepted in order to help others with similar questions. Thanx!