Permission to create projects without having other admin rights

[Bonnie_Cresswell]

From what I can find in documentation, in the config settings, and on community I don't think it is possible to give someone the ability to create a project in Jira Software without also giving them administration rights in other areas of Jira Software (i.e. a person that can create a project can also create/edit statuses, create/edit workflows, etc) - I'm asking here because I can't believe that these things can't be separated...?? - any advice appreciated!!

[Prakhar Srivastav _Appfire_]

@Bonnie_Cresswell

Yes. You are right.

However there is an add-on which can does that for you. It lets you create project template and then create a trusted group of users who can create projects from those templates.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211157/delegated-project-creator-for-jira?hosting=server&tab=overview

Regards

Prakhar

[Bonnie_Cresswell]

Thanks Prakhar - but I'm using Cloud so that's not available to me :(

[Wolfgang -Litew8 GmbH-]

Hi @Bonnie_Cresswell

you are correct, that for company-managed projects it is not possible without third party app. As you haven't accepted an answer, I wanted to show you how simple it can be to allow users to create projects without giving them Jira administrator permission using our cloud app Project Templates for Jira

Step 1: 
Create a custom project template based on an existing project or Jira native template.

Step 2:
Define the Project Creation Permission for this specific project template.

Step 3:
Activate the project template and your non-admins are ready to create Jira projects based on it.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

There are independent projects, which do not require admin rights. You can find more info here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/managing-independent-projects-942834582.html

[Bonnie_Cresswell]

Hi Alexey, thanks for your response, we don't allow the ability to create independent projects, apologies I should have given more detail about our setup I guess - we have set up a set of statuses, workflows, screens, all the necessary schemes etc against a "dummy" project and we need a user to be able to create projects based on that shared configuration (we want all projects to follow the same process)...

[Alexey Matveev]

Unfortunately, it is not possible to give access to create a project to a non-admin user in Jira Cloud. That is what the independent projects are for.

[Christian Mahlknecht]

are there any news? is this possbile for Jira Software Cloud? 

[Sanika Joshi]

Nope. You can follow the issue here, but the ticket is 19 years old, so I wouldn't hold my breath on it: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-1431