Creating a new Global Permission

[Charlie Smith]

Is there any way to create a new global permission?

We need some users to have some admin access, however, we'd like to restrict some of the access for these users but not just for a specific project, across the whole instance.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

[Moses Thomas · Accepted solution]

@Charlie SmithI believe that  the JIRA  admin  group  is already  created by  default,  if  you  need Jira  system  admin ,  then  create new  group and add users to  this group

Please see  KBA article  here

Best!

[Charlie Smith]

Thank you Moses, however, I'm looking to create a custom permission scheme where I can define what type of access the user has. We want them to be able to edit fields, workflows and issue types but not be able to have access to user management, jira add-ons etc.

[Moses Thomas]

@Charlie SmithWell Jira  is designed in this way,

Types of permissions

There are three types of permissions in Jira applications, and they range from the high-level to granular: 

• Global permissions - These apply to applications as a whole, not individual projects (for example, whether users can see the other users in the application).
• Project permissions - Organized into permission schemes, these apply to projects (e.g. who can see the project's issues, create, edit and assign them). While project admins can assign users to a project, they can't customize the permission schemes for a project. There are lots of project-level permissions you can set to control what users can do within a project.
• Issue security permissions - Organized into security schemes, these allow the visibility of individual issues to be adjusted (within the bounds of the project's permissions). For example, issue security permissions can let you set up types of issues that can only be seen by project admins or users in specific groups.

So   you need to  choose one  of these,  and in my  guest  it  should be the second,  and you  said not  just  a specific  project.  but  a good practice will  be to  create permission  scheme for each  project across the whole instance  and you  can  achieve this, may  also  give them project  admin,  which  is able to  set up  the permission  scheme.

Best!

[Charlie Smith]

Thank you very much, looks like i have to go down the project permission route.

[Moses Thomas]

@Charlie SmithYou welcome :) please mark solution as accepted /vote so  others who  are tumble in  the same situation  could use solution.

GoodLuck!.