How do I assign the permission to create Versions to a permission scheme without granting admin?

Matt Cook
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November 23, 2017

I have a lead developer that i need to have access to create new versions within a project. I've found that currently the only way to do this is to grant them a Jira-Admin privilage. 

I want to be able to give them the ability to create a new version, but without having to grant them a full admin permission.

Is this possible?

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Alexey Matveev
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November 23, 2017

Hello,

You need to grant  the lead developer Administer project permission, not Jira admin permission. It is different. You can see here what a user with Administer project permission can do. https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/managing-project-permissions-861253293.html

Maybe it is fine for you

Matt Cook
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November 23, 2017

Thanks

This gives more than I was hoping it would but it's fine for what I need. I'll maybe suggest a feature request to break down permissions on a more granular basis

 

Thanks for your help

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Joel
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August 15, 2018

I agree with Matt here, permissions need to be more granular than this. We have a team specific to managing releases at an enterprise level. Having that team able to manipulate all projects that utilize the release system at an Admin level project to project is way too much access all at once.  

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Ben Bloodworth
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December 12, 2018

My team is also dealing with this problem.  We want to give someone with limited permissions access to create versions, but they do not need to be administering the whole project.  Has there been any movement toward more granular permissions for this.  Is there somewhere where I can submit a change request to Atlassian for this?

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Paul Preibisch January 7, 2019

I also agree with this.  We want to give the product manager the ability to create versions - why should we give them the ability to manage the entire project?

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January 18, 2019

Throwing another "me, too!" in here- it's fine to keep top-level permission "switches", but we should also have the ability to give these permissions piecemeal. 

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Peter Kaiser _Admin_
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January 21, 2019

me too :-) 

Evan Wolf
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January 23, 2019

Yes, please.

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Yes, +1, this definitely needs to be more granular!

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January 30, 2019

+1 on this.

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Rafael Braga
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January 31, 2019

+1, I just want a Developer to be able to create versions. He shouldn't be fiddling with my workflows. It just doesn't make any sense. 

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February 5, 2019

Voting for this also

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February 7, 2019

Same here

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Martin Perry
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March 31, 2019

How is this not changed yet? Granting project admin just to make a new version is overkill.

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+1

Howard Olson August 26, 2019

There is a pretty rich set of granular options for determine permissions for users, roles, groups, etc.  Seems odd to me that this one was left off the list.  We need it.

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StephanieC
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October 18, 2019

We are going through the same thing. When we launched in 2016, we were told to keep all tickets open for everyone to see and that noone but PMs and managers would EVER add components and fix versions. Things changed (of course) and now we only have one permission scheme that goes across all maintenance projects and we will have to completely re-design permission structure just to make  "X" project only permissions a thing. :-(

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here the same

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Same !

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+1. It blocks so many systems that are a bit more advanced than someone working out of a garage.

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FIX ThiS NOW WE ALL NEED It!

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+1 

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Thanks

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Has anything changed whatsoever? Are we being listened or ignored?

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+

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+1 - can't believe this was a feature requested nearly 5 years ago now!

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+1 - because why not :) and also it would be ideal to have this available as a granular permission rather than the full project admin permission. Thank you for the post and comments. I have voted and watched JSWCLOUD-17608  - thank you

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+1

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It's crazy that you need to be project admin to create versions. That creates a bottleneck and slows don the team.

David Wolfman
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+1 Jira is horrible with lack of granularity. Love how this issue is going on since 2017 and we pay for the privilege of poor permissions and other capabilities that exist in every other application in the field.

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+1 more permission control!

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+1

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+1

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+1

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Rosa M Fossi
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Has a suggestion ticket been created for this with Atlassian? I'd like to go up vote it, but I haven't located one.  If you know of one, post it here (if not, I'll go create one!)  :) 

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I've just created one, hopefully you didn't too ;)

JSWCLOUD-17608

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Perfect, thank you @Corin! I vote for it. But, like most other issues from customers, Atlassian will ignore it. 😪

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@Corin  I didn't get a chance yet.  I'll go vote it up!!

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Agreed, this gives more than needed.

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I voted for it!

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we are too!

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and me!

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+1

Jira needs a Permission called Manage Version, to allow Versions to be created, changed, released, archived, without being project admin.

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+1 Agreed

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+1

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Mark Noller
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+1 This is a must-have!

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Rafael Braga
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June 6, 2019

I've found a way to do it with Automation For Jira. You can create an automation that receives a post request, and that post request can create (and release) a new version. I made one of those and gave the URL to developer that was needing it. It works for me but it's a far cry from a perfect solution.

Rosa M Fossi
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Thanks for sharing this!

Rahul Savaikar
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Hello @Rafael Braga 

Could you please share the details of how you managed to (almost) achieve this  using Automation for JIRA?

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I've found a working workaround with Automation. Use the "Manual trigger from issue" trigger, tick "Prompt for input when this rule is triggered" and add a Short Text field, then add a "Create version" action that uses the input from the trigger. The Version name would be something like (depending on your field name):

{{userInputs.versionName}}

Then anyone who has permission to run the action (defaults to everyone but you can restrict in the "Manual trigger" block) can kick off the automation from a ticket and create a version.

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Great workaround, Marc. Just solved an "impossible request" from my organization, using your suggestion.

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Nice workaround, Marc!

 

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@Marc Jaythanks for your solution. It was really helpful!

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+1 for Jira Cloud

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+1 Seems like a low hanging fruit to implement. 

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Cesar Ortiz Salazar November 30, 2021

Uno más, dos años después de que apareció el problema, aún no hay respuesta? :(

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+1

 

This should absolutely be fixed. In an R&D environment, we create many "versions" that are not going to a client, but rather an internal team of testers. Using a version (for affects version and fixed version) is absolutely critical for defect tracking. My Developers need no other functionality than this. There should be a separate permission to allow this level of access. 

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+1 from me too. I do wonder if anybody from Atlassian even bothers reading what the community asks for.

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Hi, try this quick steps to assign a team member as project administrator so he/she will able to create Versions in the specified project:

  1. Go to JIRA Administration > Projects 
  2. find project by using available filter
  3. click the project name
  4. go to left menu "User and Roles"
  5. find a team member who will be assigned to be able to create Versions
  6. set as Administrators, you can assign multiple roles e.g both as developers and Administrators
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George Turnbull
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June 16, 2023

I posted this answer for the question about a non-admin solution for Managing Versions (for with there is no Atlassian answer), but if you want a person to be able to create Releases AND manage Versions, you need both the permissions listed below:

The original Answer is only partially correct (at least for Data Center). Until Atlassian deigns to add this as a stand-alone permission, you need the following permissions on your project to fully manage Releases & Versions:

1. You must have the Administer Projects permission (with or without extended project administration). NOTE: This permission alone allows you to CREATE a Release AND add issues from the backlog to a version. It DOES NOT allow you to add an issue to a version in a Detail screen (neither the board Issue Detail View, the Edit dialog nor the Detail screen)

2. You must have the Resolve Issues permission. This will enable you to add an issue to a Version using the board Issue Detail View, the Edit dialog and the Detail screen.

For us this was critical as we often add issues after they are In Progress (no longer in the backlog.

Hope this helps clarify this rather confusing problem.

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+ 1

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LETS GO! Add this feature already... we're paying lots of money for this cloud solution, the very least you guys can do is listen to the things WE NEED and not waste time with forcing everyone to change their JIRA view (the new one sucks BTW)

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This annoyed me to no end, I decided to do something about it, I use dates for releases and I came up with this script:

This gives details on what the post request looks like and the auth that will generate FixVersions. In MY case, I have added logic to create a loop of fixVersions based on a range of dates.

Hope it helps, please comment if it does help

import requests
import json

from datetime import timedelta, date

# ************** SETUP ********************

# This is my email
MY_JIRA_SUPER_USER_EMAIL = "<my jira email>"

# Key needs to be generated by logging into Jira and creating an access key, not too difficult (I wouldn't share this though BTW)
MY_JIRA_KEY = "<my jira access key>"

# My Jira domain
MY_JIRA_DOMAIN = "<mycompany>.atlassian.net"

# ************** FUNCTIONS ********************

def create_fixversion(single_date):
response = requests.post(
"{}/rest/api/3/version".format(MY_JIRA_DOMAIN),
auth=(MY_JIRA_SUPER_USER_EMAIL, MY_JIRA_KEY),
headers = {'content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json'},
data = json.dumps(
{
"archived": False,
"releaseDate": single_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
"name": single_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
"description": single_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
"projectId": 11805,
"released": True
}
)
)

def daterange(start_date, end_date):
for n in range(int((end_date - start_date).days)):
yield start_date + timedelta(n)

# ************** RUNNING CODE BELOW ********************

# Change these for your date range
start_date = date(2021, 6, 30) # and including
end_date = date(2021, 7, 1) # and not including

# Loop through
for single_date in daterange(start_date, end_date):
print(single_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))
create_fixversion(single_date)

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Late to the party, but if you're still accepting +1's, here's mine.  :) 

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Not sure it will make much difference, but let me add another +1

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+1!
The same issue with creating Components!

Would be great if this could be configured like all the other authorization options in a project

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Kent Chiu
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October 27, 2020

+1 for JIRA server

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Adrian SMYTH
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April 3, 2020

we need this too

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Roey Shamir December 24, 2019

Hi, you are more than welcome to try my plugin for free - Version Manager for JIRA cloud.

Not only does it let you delegate the manage versions permission to whoever you decide but it also lets you assign components to versions.

Mateusz Przybyłek
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January 30, 2020

this is not for free

Roey Shamir January 30, 2020

Hi @Mateusz Przybyłek ,

Thanks for your reply. I'll clarify - you can try it for free in a 30-day trial.