JIRA permissions hierarchy

JIRA manages its permissions in a hierarchical manner. Each level is more fine-grained than the one above it. For a user to gain access to a resource, for example to view an issue, he/she needs to satisfy all three levels of permission (if they are all set on the issue in question):

  • JIRA global permission: This permission controls the overall access rights to JIRA. For example, who can access JIRA.
  • Project-level permission: This permission controls the project-level permissions.
  • Issue-level security: This permission controls the view access on a per-issue level.

You will look at each of the permission levels and how you can configure them to suit your requirements, starting from the most coarse-grained permission level – ...

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