If you create a role for Board Administrator do you need a Board Administrator group

[Cindy Sobus]

We do not have a role for Board administrators.  If we create a role for Board Administrator do we also need to create a Board Administrators group in System Administration for Users or can the role be created and just assign to individual users per each project?

[Danny Coleman · Accepted solution]

You don't need to create a unique group for roles - you can absolutely just assign individual users to the role on a per-project basis.

Roles are best utilized when you're anticipating needing a different set of users for that role depending on the project. If it's the same set of users, you're probably better off creating a group and granting the appropriate permissions at the Permission Scheme level. That'll reduce the amount of maintenance you need to perform if that user group needs to be updated.

Hope that helps!

[Cindy Sobus]

Thank you!  I am new to Jira Administration and don't actually use Jira so the documentation is sometimes confusing.  Appreciate the quick and helpful response.