JIRA - Reporter dropdown shows all users from all projects regardless of permissions

[Jiri Pik]

Why does the name of a user who has no access to the project shows in the dropdown as a potential Reporter?

The same is for the Epics dropdown - why does it show epics from unrelated projects?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The "reporter" is a slightly odd permission-based setting.

To be a "reporter", you need to be able to create issues in the project.  This means you can limit the reporter options by changing the permission scheme.  I suspect you'll find a default there already, like "all logged in users" or "all Jira users" - cut that back to just the people who should be able to create issues in the project.

[Prakhar Srivastav {Appfire}]

@Jiri Pik 

You can go to Project Permissions and set a role/group to allow access to be reporter on the issues in the project.

Please check if this helps.

Regards

Prakhar

[Jiri Pik]

Prakhar - what is the exact name of the setting to be changed?

[Prakhar Srivastav {Appfire}]

@Jiri Pik 

I checked the project permission scheme. And there is no reportable user like assignable user  ( as I assumed it should be). But still you can achieve what you want  by below steps:

First thing is since creator of the issue automatically becomes the reporter you can limit issue creation permission.

You can also restrict the ability to modify reporter.

So the above both combination can somewhat achieve what you want.

Regards

Prakhar