Is there a way to prevent users from adding new projects?

[Ilze Schoeman]

We have 4 main projects in Jira to suit our business needs. Each of our 'projects' are actually reflected as 'Epics' in Jira. We want to prevent normal users from going back to our old ways of working and creating a new JIRA 'project' for every product we have. Is there a way to do this?

We want the users to be able to create issues within a project, but to not allow them to create new projects. 

[Joe Pitt]

Only JIRA administrators can create projects on the server version.

[Ilze Schoeman]

Apologies - I must be on the cloud version then. I got confused as it looks very different from in my previous company! Everyone can create projects and we want to limit this! Do you know how?

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

I think you would need a plugin for it.

For example, you could use the Power Scripts add-on:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/43318/power-scripts-jira-script-automation?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

You could write a validator like this:

if (issueType == "Epic" and currentUser() =="user1"){

  return true;

}

return false;

[Ilze Schoeman]

Hi - I'm not sure how this add-on would help me with this? Please can you let me know some more details. 

I am looking to remove this 'Create Project' button for certain users (please see image)