You don't have permission to delete a version

[Martin Sun]

I have no permission to delete a release ( version ) , how can I deal with it? 

[Mayur Jadhav · Accepted solution]

Hi @Martin Sun ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!!!

Versions management is part of the project admin role.  If you are a project admin, you can add, edit or delete versions. 

If not you can ask your Project Admin to delete or add you to the Administrator project in the particular project.

Cheers,
Mayur

[Martin Sun]

Thanks Mayur for quick response. I am the project admin, but I am not able to delete the release from a company managed Software project. I made some version for testing purposes, but now I don't want these testing data. 

Is there any place to configure the permission? 

In Team managed project, I can delete the version directly , but in company managed project. I can't.. 

[Martin Sun]

@Mayur Jadhav 

[Mayur Jadhav]

@Martin Sun ,

1. Choose Administration () > Projects, and select the relevant project.

2. Choose Versions in the left menu. The Versions page is displayed, showing a list of versions and each version's status. From here you can manage the project's versions as described on this page.

3. On the 'Versions' screen, hover over the relevant version to display the cog icon, then select Delete from the drop-down menu.
4. This will bring you to the 'Delete Version: <Version>' confirmation page. From here, you can specify the actions to be taken for issues associated with the version to be deleted. You can either associate these issues with another version, or simply remove references to the version to be deleted.

Can you please share a screenshot ??

[Martin Sun]

@Mayur Jadhav ， Sir. as shown below, I reached the page where have the list of the versions. But in the drop-down menu, Delete function is disabled.

[Mayur Jadhav]

@Martin Sun could you please share the screenshot of permission scheme of this project?

[Martin Sun]

@Mayur Jadhav  Sir， I selected Project Settings--> Permissions. But I couldn't find any item that indicated the version config. See below: 

[Mayur Jadhav]

@Martin Sun , you have the required access and you should be able to delete the version. Very strange I would suggest you open Support Ticket with Atlassian.

[Martin Sun]

Sure, thank you for giving you advices. :) @Mayur Jadhav 

[Deleted user]

I am seeing a similar issue here using the JIRA Cloud API

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-project-versions/#api-rest-api-3-version-id-delete

This endpoint says the JIRA administrators should be able to delete versions, but I consistently get a 401 unauth reply.

The user in question is not only a jira admin, but also an org admin.

Any thoughts?

[Deleted user]

I have resolved this on my own by adding a permission grant to the appropriate permission scheme.

There is 100% misleading/wrong documentation for the version delete API end point.

[Konstantina]

@Martin Sun Hiya, I had the same issue and fixed it by going to the Project settings > People and giving myself the Administrator role there too. 

[Martin Sun]

Thanks for looking after this issue. It was resolved by Jira Admin :)

To be able to delete versions in the company-managed projects the user must be granted the Administer Projects permission in the project permission scheme.

Project settings > Permission> Actions ( Top right ) > Edit Permission>Administer Projects ( Update roles )  FYI. @Konstantina 

[Ryan Howard]

That worked for me!  Thank you @Martin Sun!

[Eduardo Pinheiro]

I have the same issue and I solve adding myself to project.

For some reason when you create a project you don't is automatically added as a member of project, for that reason even thought you are an Org Admin, you will not have Administration access to the project.