Edit Project Roles for User

[niggles20]

I am attempting to edit the project roles assigned to a user (Jira Server). When I go to System > User Management > Select the user > View Project Roles, the Jira project I need to give this person the administrator role for is not listed.

I have checked a couple of other users (including myself) and the Jira project is listed for them.  For other users, it is absent.

Can anyone please tell me how I can get this particular Jira project to display in the project role list for all users?

[Rilwan Ahmed]

@niggles20 ,

You can go to User Management > Select the user > Edit Project role. 

The initial view of this screen displays all the projects where the user is a member of one or more project roles. To display more projects on this screen, click the Display Project link and select the project or project category you want to include.

[Simon König]

Hello,

I know this is a Thread that is quite old, but I wondered: If you have many projects and want to grant many rights simultaneously it is very annoying to select every project, then having to display al again, and so on. Does someone know if there is a better option or an open ticket? I can't find anything.

[Rilwan Ahmed]

Hi @Simon König ,

It is always better make use of groups in "users and role" instead of adding users one by one. 

So when you get a request to add user to particular role, you just need to add user to the group. This will help when you get request to grant users same user as existing one. You just need to add new user to groups where old user is part of. 

[Simon König]

Why is the "Role" implemented at all then. I thought Atlassian wanted to change some things there? I know there is some "best practice" for Roles and Groups but I don't understand any use case where I have to use both.

But this might be a personal discussion I should take over to them and not in this thread.

[Rilwan Ahmed]

This is the mapping we use and save a lot of work when we have 1000's users in jira.
Users --> Groups --> Roles/Permissions scheme

[Tansu Akdeniz]

Hi @niggles20 

Administrator role is given in a project -> project settings -> users and roles section. Then the user will be project administrator for that project. The page you mentioned only shows the projects where user is added to a role.

[niggles20]

I have given other users admin access to a specific project using the page mentioned above. I've never come across a situation where the specific project wasn't listed in that page (though I have seen instances where a listed project has crosses in all project roles).

I'm wondering if something is different / missing for this particular project that means it doesn't show up?

Aside from that, adding the user in the way you suggested has successfully allocated the permission. Thanks!

[Weixing Xu]

I also want to know about this problem. Is there any progress