As an admin: How can you setup Jira so stories can be deleted?

[Steffen Paul]

I am new admin and we have created some stories for training. Now - before starting the real project - we would like to get rid of these stories. Where and how do I have to change the setup?

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

Beware of deleting production issues. Deleted is DELETED. There are tons of people looking for ways to bring back deleted issues. Basically you can't.  If you have a backup you can restore to a different instance and then export to csv and import the deleted issues.  I have a resolution value of Deleted I use to close issues we would want to delete. 

JIRA will not reuse issue numbers.  

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

You can delete issues if you have the necessary permissions. It is set up at the project level, using permission schemes.

See https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/managing-project-permissions-776636362.html for more details.

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

You should grant to your user the Delete Issues permission in the project permission scheme.

[Steffen Paul]

Thanks for your help!

[Alexey Matveev]

You are welcome! If any of our answers helped you, kindly accept these answers. You can accept all three answers or two answers or a single answer, if you feel so. In this case users with a similair question will be able to find accepted by you answers.