How to change reporter for an issue?

[egle_samuoliene]

How to change the reporter for an issue? I created a project and selected project lead, but when I got to issues I see they have a totally other person as a reporter. I need to edit that. How can I do that? 

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi @egle_samuoliene ,

you need to edit the permissions of your project or add yourself to the administrator project role. There's a permission called "Modify Reporter":

I think the default setting is that every user in the project role "Administrator" is able to change the reporter. 

[Emma Tett]

Hey - can you give more context on how to do this? How do I navigate to this page? 

Thanks, 

[Sergey Kislitsyn]

@Emma Tett

project settings -> permissions

[Dennis Celen]

@Thomas Schlegel I have admin rights but i still am not able to change the reporter when creating or editing an issue.

[Dennis Celen]

found the solution

[Anthony Zink]

Hello, can you tell me what the solution was? I have the same problem as you

[Zach Shields]

Please share the solution that you discovered. Don't leave us hangin!

[Maria Groll]

Eventhough I have admin rights in Jira I was as well confronted with not beeing able to modify the reporter in a certain Project. Permission Helper was telling me "No". ;-)

Maybe it helps to read what my solution was:

Make sure that "Modifying Reporter" is allowed in the project for at least some roles
( go to Project Settings->Permissions) like @Thomas Schlegel described

Make sure that you have the certain project role that is allowed to modify reporter:

Go to Project Settings ->People->Ad myself with Admin role for the Project (if you don´t have jira Admin rights, you probably need to ask your admin for help...)