Limit the ability to create a new project

[zatimond]

Hello,

I wan't to limit/restrict the right to create a new project only to certain admins members. How can I achive that?

Thanks,

Attila

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

If you are a JIRA admin, you can create the projects. You cannot restrict it to selected admins, without doing custom development in JIRA.

I would recommend enforcing it by policy, instead of trying to customize JIRA. Project creation events are logged and hence you can always track who created the project.

[zatimond]

My idea was to create a secondary admin group, but with a few rights revoked (also the one that allows you to create a new project).

What do you mean by enforce by policy?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jobin means you should tell your people what and how to do things, rather than try to deal with it in JIRA.

Most of us have a JIRA support project, with a "project" type issue type so that users can quickly ask the admins for a new project.  For large installs, some of us automate the process, so that new projects are created via post-functions.

A better option is to have a look in the marketplace though - there are several project handling add-ons.  From memory, the one from Wittified is very good and I think handles delegation, so you can have a group of "project creators"

[zatimond]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I think you all know the 'tell your people' part is not always the easy road.

Probably, the send an email to create a project is the viable solution without any extra cost and limiting the admin group.