We have some trainees and we would like to give them some introductory tasks in JIRA.
We are using JIRA version 4.4.
What is the least intrusive way (avoiding creating global groups or permissions, if possible) in JIRA to achieve the following:
- restrict the trainee user account so he can browse only a certain single project and no other projects are visible to him in menu, dashboards etc.
- give this user the same permissions as default jira-developer has, but only for his associated project
?
Those trainees might leave after a month or two, so we would like to be able to delete their accounts later as easy as possible (without any linking issues, like “You cannot delete this because it is associated with that”…).
I tried to add one of the trainee accounts to a project using People tab. I added this user to Developers and Users sections, but still this user has a message:
“You do not have a permission to log in.”
when trying to log-in.
If I add this user to jira-users group, he can log-in, but he is able to see all the projects.
It depends which groups have the Developer and User project roles. By default these are jira-developers and jira-users. I would create a new project TRAINING and grant the Developers and Users roles to the trainee user ids explicitly. Now they can play in that project.
The harder parts are to restrict them from the other projects yet still allow them to log in. If the default groups are in use then do not add them to jira-users or jira-developers. You will have to define a jira-trainees group and add to the Global Permissions to allow them to log in.
Come to think of it, if you’ve ended up defining a jira-trainees group then you might as well use it in the project roles instead of their individual user ids. Once this is all set up you only have to add a user to jira-traininees, make sure they’re not in jira-developers and jir-users and you’re ready to go.