set permission Move Issues to project role Reporter in JIRA 7.4.4

[Helen Ahlberg]

Hi

I want to grant project role Reporter permission to move issue but the role does not excist?!?

I see the Reporter (and assigned to user/s) on my issues but I cannot find it under permissions. Where is it or this assignment set for something else?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ah, hang on, there is confusing language in the documentation here.

There are "project roles" which most of us call "roles", and "roles" which are *dynamic* but most of us don't call them roles because they are fields.

These "dynamic roles" only appear as functions in certain places.  Such as permissions.

For your case, what you want to do should be something like granting "move" to

• People in group X - jira will look in the group to see if the current user is in it
• People in project role Y in this project - Jira will look in the role to see if the current user is in it (or a group that is in the role)
• The Reporter dynamic role - Jira will look at the issue and check if the reporter field is the current user

My guess is that when you are trying to grant Move permissions, you are selecting "project role" when actually, you want (dynamic role of) "reporter" which is lower on the list

[Helen Ahlberg]

Well as I wrote in the beginning:

I want to grant project role Reporter permission 

I do not know what you mean by lower on the list?

In my scheme I have

Project role Users granted under Create issue
Project role Developer granted under Move issue

I have now added Project role Users to Move issue - does this do the trick?

Do I now allow "Reporter" (what ever this is) to move issues?

BR

/Helen

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

But you said you don't have a project role Reporter (and I would strongly recommend not having one either, as it will make things even messier.  If you want a role to explicitly control creating issues, call it "creators" or something similar.

"Lower on the list" means when you click "add permission" and select one or more, the list of things you can grant starts "project role", "group", and eventually lists "Reporter", which is the dynamic (not project) role I think you want.

You don't need users to have the move permission, unless you do mean "all people in project role of users" (which is almost always going to happen to include the reporter).  If it is only the reporter who should move issues, then oyou only add the reporter.

[Helen Ahlberg]

Sorry but this is my mistake. I did not open the dialog enough.I have found the Reporter setting now.

Thank you for your patience.

 BR
/Helen

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Helen Ahlberg,

project roles can be created individually for each Jira installation. In the end this is just for mapping users/groups to project permissions.

What you need to do is, to locate the current role of the person that can 'Create Issue' (reporter do this). Then you have to add to the permission 'Move Issue' this role (in the projects' permission scheme).

Afterwards the person(s), who can create issues, can also move them.

But be aware: Everybody, who is in this role can now move issues. And if you want to allow them to move issues to another project, they need to have the permission 'Create Issue' in the other project.

So long

Thomas

[Helen Ahlberg]

Hi

Thank you for the answer - I just wanted to confirm that this was the case.

There is now way to set permissions on 'role' Reporter as this role is not a proper Project role - just a automatic assignment to who ever creates Issues. Is this correct?

BR
/Helen

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Helen Ahlberg,

probably you have a role "Reporter" that depends on your individual Jira configuration.

Best you read this article.

So long

Thomas

[Helen Ahlberg]

Hi

No we do not have the role Reporter in our JIRA - at least when I look under System and Project Roles - no role Reporter here. It should appear here or?

BUT when I look at different cards in different Project I can see the Reporter "line" and I can see different users name along with it. We then assumed that the one user creating this specific issue also was set as Reporter automatically.

BR/Helen