Bulk Change Best Practice

[Andrea Robbins]

Hi everyone!

I am cleaning up a Jira instance, and I'm looking at the current global permissions. It seems like the jira-users group is given permissions to do bulk changes. 

I know that once a bulk change is done, it can't be reverted. I wasn't sure what the best practice was - for only admins to have this permission or leadership/management or maybe all users? I'm sure it depends on the org, but what considerations should I consider or what is the best practice?

[Kristján Geir Mathiesen · Accepted solution]

Hi @Andrea Robbins hope you are well :)

Well, in my mind the bulk changes can be a double edge sword. Very powerful feature and awesome but at the same time not necessarily best that all users have access to it since users that are not sure what they are doing can also wreak havoc :)

I prefer to limit permissions to bulk changes to leaders/managers/users that actually have a need for it and also understand the implications bulk changes can have. Fewer is better in this arena, I think.

HTH,
KGM

[Andrea Robbins]

awesome thank you!