User access settings - How do roles and groups work here?

[Steven Zeck]

Hi all!

I see on the User access settings page under Approved domains, you can configure which Product role each user gets for each product. The options here are User and No role. If User is selected, does it automatically add each account to the <product>-users-<sitename> group (like jira-users-myorg) when users sign up?

For something like Jira Product Discovery, is it possible to configure via User access settings so that users are added to the jira-product-discovery-contributors-myorg group, and not jira-product-discovery-users-myorg?

I've been trying to figure out if default groups are the answer, but I don't quite understand how those work. It seems that not only does each product require a default group, each product role for each product requires a default group. In the case of Jira Product Discovery, those are Contributor, User access admin, and User (creator). What purpose do these serve exactly?

Thanks in advance.

[Yousif Hassan]

I've used Scriptrunner to create a solution for something similar to this in the past - happy to share my approach or do it for you. My best email is: yousif@usenexus.com.au