Assign people to tasks

[Büşra Öztürk]

Hello,
Can I assign tasks to people without adding them as users?

[Jason Waller]

Hi @Büşra Öztürk 

If you are asking can you assign issue to someone without putting them in the Jira Software Users Group.  The answer is yes but it involves creating a separate group and permission scheme.  This is quite commonly used when you have users whom you only want to see certain projects within your Jira instance 

[John Funk]

Hi Büşra,

No, this is not possible. The person must be able to perform functions as the assignee which cannot be done if the person is not a user and does not have a license. 

[John Funk]

It sounds like you are trying to get around having to pay for licenses for the system. That should not be done. 

[Büşra Öztürk]

Hello everybody,

Thank you for your feedback. I defined people to the system without being a user. But I can't assign jobs to them. That's why I asked this question.

[Dirk Ronsmans]

Hey @Büşra Öztürk ,

Can you elaborate a bit on what you are trying to accomplish?

Really using the Assignee field is not possible since those would need a user license. Also for a user to be able to see the task they would need to have an account and log in.

If you are merely trying to assign something to someone and have them be notified by email for example (and they won't ever enter the system) you could use a user picker field and just use it to indicate who is supposed to work on it.

[Rilwan Ahmed]

Hi @Büşra Öztürk ,

User should be part of project to assign the tasks.

[Evgenii]

Hi, @Büşra Öztürk

Sorry to disappoint you, but no, it's impossible.