"Transition Issues" permission without "Service Project Agent" permission

[Giorgos Savva]

Hello team,

I could really use your help to find a workaround to my issue described below.

What I want to achieve here, is to allow only a specific group to have access to "customers" and maybe "Apps" option in JSM sidebar:

 

The only possible solution that I found, is by removing all the other groups from 

"Service Project Agent" permission, and grant that permission only to that specific group. Then grant the "Transition issues" permission to the rest of the licensed user. 

However, this does not work.

There is also a setting that "allows" only Jira Administrators to manage organizations which has several issues:

1. I do not want the specific group to be jira administrators

2. Even with the option turned on, the rest of the sers can still remove the organization. they are only restricted from inviting and/or removing customers from the organization (which I believe is a bug and not a feature request as the jira support requested me to raise a feature request for this one).

Any other alternatives/workarounds I can try?

Thank you in advance!

[Lucas Modzelewski _Lumo_]

Basically, Agents in Jira are responsible for working on issues - responding to customers, making public status changes, and performing actions that can be tracked with SLAs. There are numerous features designed to make an agent's life easier, and it's important to note that the Jira Service Management (SM) license is based on the number of Agents.

However, you could potentially create an "agent bot" user, which could be used to trigger transitions based on public comments (not agents can do that too) or manual changes (such as internal status updates that are not visible to customers: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Service-Management/Re-Hiding-Ticket-Status-from-Customers/qaq-p/2578203/comment-id/157652#M157652 ).