I have a group of external users who need to be made watchers on certain issues, as the need arises, within a project. They should not have any other access beyond these issues. I have been given conflicting advice on how to do this. The first recommends that a a security scheme must be made and attached to the project. A JIRA group should then be made and the assignment of the group as watchers would be done by the admin on a case by case basis. The second recommendation is simply to make an external users group and add these to the manage watchers and voters section. The first idea is difficult to manage and the second is one and done. I don't really believe the 2nd idea is correct but it seems like a better option. Does anyone want to weigh in on this?

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What is the best way to move teams out of projects into new ones?

We have one project in our Jira cloud instance that is used by a handful of teams. This isn't convenient anymore so we are looking at creating new projects for some of these teams. My thought is that any of their tickets should be bulk moved over to the new project and then we can move the board(s) over as well.

Looking for confirmation and guidance to see if there is anything else we haven't thought of that would need to be done in order to not lose anything and make this a smooth transition.

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Sometimes things are simpler than you think. You don't even need any group to be added in the Manage Watchers section. As logn as you can see the issue ("Browse Projects" permission), you can watch it.

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Jobin, I like your idea but won't the person browsing the project see all issues? The issues within this project contain sensitive information and therefore each issue is for certain eyes only.

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