Forums

Articles
Create
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Only Unscoped API Key Works for Jira Issue Routes

Shaun Brazzoni
I'm New Here
I'm New Here
Those new to the Atlassian Community have posted less than three times. Give them a warm welcome!
October 13, 2025

This issue seems to exist on all routes, but my narrowed example is on this route:

/rest/api/3/issue/createmeta/{projectIdOrKey}/issuetypes

I can only use an unscoped key to access that route. If I use a scoped key I get the following error:

"{\"errorMessages\":[\"You cannot create issues in this project.\",\"You are not authorized to perform this operation. Please log in.\"],\"errors\":{}}"

I've created 4 keys with these permissions:

  • read:jira-work (the only required classic permission defined here)
  • every classic permission
  • read:issue-meta:jira, read:avatar:jira, read:field-configuration:jira (the list of narrow permissions)
  • write:jira-workread:jira-work

Every key gives that same error. Am I missing something here?

Edit: This doesn't seem to be limited to Product Discovery. I get the same error when accessing a regular Jira project; I also get the same non-error using an unscoped key on that project.

0 answers

Suggest an answer

Log in or Sign up to answer
TAGS
AUG Leaders

Atlassian Community Events