Project Lead and Project Role=Administrator role can not access Project Administration

Donell Peters February 26, 2016

If people are the Project Lead for a project, and also added to the Project Role of Administrator, should they not be able to access the Project Administration?  For some reason, this is not happening.

3 answers

1 vote
Jeremy Gaudet
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
February 26, 2016

My understanding is that project roles have no innate privileges, it depends on the permission scheme for the project.  One would generally expect that the administrator role have "Administer Projects", but it's certainly not guaranteed.

Donell Peters February 26, 2016

In Permission Schemes, editing the scheme associated with most projects.  For Administrator, when you Edit, the Grant Permission dialog appears.  Permission = Administer Projects.  I selected Project Role=Administrators.  However, when I use the Permission Helper, it says that a person who is in the Administrators Role does not have Administer Project Permissions.  It works for some people, but not others and the projects are using the same permission scheme.  Any idea what's up?

Jeremy Gaudet
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
February 26, 2016

Nothing comes to mind offhand.  Unless maybe you require Browse as a prerequisite for Administer.  Can you paste screen shots (redacted as necessary/desired) of the Permission Helper analysis of the user, as well as the project's role page and the permission scheme?

Donell Peters February 26, 2016

Permission Scheme.png

Donell Peters February 26, 2016

Here is the Permission Scheme

Donell Peters February 26, 2016

Maybe this is the problem.  I thought that adding people to the Administrator Project Role would enable them as Admins for all projects.  Do you also have to add them again on each project?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
Community Leader
Community Leader
Community Leaders are connectors, ambassadors, and mentors. On the online community, they serve as thought leaders, product experts, and moderators.
February 26, 2016

Yes,

Roles are defined globally, but work on a project level.

Users belong to a role on a project level - that's what they were intended for (you can use one permission scheme but have totally different sets of users for each project).

Like Capi [resolution] likes this
Jeremy Gaudet
Rising Star
Rising Star
Rising Stars are recognized for providing high-quality answers to other users. Rising Stars receive a certificate of achievement and are on the path to becoming Community Leaders.
February 26, 2016

If you want to be able to add a "global" set of project admins, that aren't JIRA admins, I'd create a group, and explicitly add that group to the permission scheme.  That will give members of that group "Administer Projects" independent of the individual project role membership.  The role membership is, by design, for individual project management.

Alternately, you could add that group to each project, but that will enable 'local' project admins to also remove them, should any exist.

0 votes
Sree Putturi April 29, 2016

Was this resolved? we are seeing the same thing so curious

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
Community Leader
Community Leader
Community Leaders are connectors, ambassadors, and mentors. On the online community, they serve as thought leaders, product experts, and moderators.
April 29, 2016

Yes, as per @Jeremy Gaudet 's answers.

0 votes
Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
Community Leader
Community Leader
Community Leaders are connectors, ambassadors, and mentors. On the online community, they serve as thought leaders, product experts, and moderators.
February 26, 2016

Maybe.   Check the project permission scheme to see who that grants project administration to.  You might not have "project lead" or "role project administrator" in it.

Suggest an answer

Log in or Sign up to answer