Restrict ability to delete projects to admins only, not project admins

[Laurien Scoville]

I'm relatively new to Jira and Jira Service Management, so this question applies to both in Cloud. We've got multiple integrations going on, so we would like to prevent project admins from moving projects to trash, leaving that right to only the jira admins. Is there a way to do this?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Project admins can only trash the team-managed projects that they own.

Company-managed projects can only be trashed by Jira and Site admins.

You can't stop project admins from being able to trash their own team-managed projects, it's one of the points of being team-managed.

[Ste Wright]

Hi @Laurien Scoville 

Jira Projects or Issues?

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If it's Jira Projects, there are two types...

• Company-managed: Projects can only be deleted by Jira Admins - users don't have access to Create/Delete these
• Team-managed: Project Admins have delete access to these - and often create access, assuming it is activated via Global Permissions (Settings > System > Global Permissions)

Whilst you could limit access to all Project Administration in a Team-managed Project by modifying the Administrator role, it would be very arduous and remove much of the functionality which is beneficial in Team-managed (eg. customising the project setup).

I'd just use Company-managed Projects instead, which is limited natively.

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If it's Jira Issues, you can modify the Permission Scheme(s) to accomodate this:

1. Go to Settings > Issues
2. Select Permission Schemes from the left-hand menu
3. For each Permission Scheme relevant to a Project you need to restrict, enter the Scheme
4. Press Remove next to the Delete Issues permission - and remove all Groups/Project Roles used by humans
5. Next, press Edit and grant access to your Jira Administration Group.

Note: In relation to (4), I'd advise leaving any system Groups/Roles active in Delete Issues so Apps and other functionality (such as Automation) can make use of it where necessary.

The main Project Role I always leave with access is atlassian-addons-project-access

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Let us know if this resolves your query, or feel free to ask further questions!

Ste

[Laurien Scoville]

Thanks, folks!

[Tansu Akdeniz]

Hi @Laurien Scoville 

Go to the project -> project settings -> permissions, remove Administrators project role from Delete Issues permission. Then you can add jira admins group to grant access.