How do I disable the "Create Project" button?

[Eric Vormelker]

I have a user that created a project without my knowledge. I checked another user and when the view all projects, they can see the 'create project' button in the top right. I'd like to restrict that button to just Administrators.

[Manon Soubies-Camy · Accepted solution]

Hello Eric,

Since you're using Jira Cloud, you need to remove Create independent projects permission from users, see documentation. Otherwise, even though users don't have administration rights, they can create projects.

Hope this helps,

- Manon

[Walter Buggenhout]

Apparently something new in Cloud since February 2018. Thx for pointing that out, @Manon Soubies-Camy!

[Eric Vormelker]

Thank you, @Manon Soubies-Camy!

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

You're welcome! I discovered this permission last month, not sure Atlassian talked a lot about this new feature.

[Alexey Matveev]

I ve read about independent projects a couple of times but, when I need them, I always forget that they are called indendent. I can not figure out why the projects are called like this. That is why I always forget how they are called:)

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Eric Vormelker,

The ability to create project IS restricted to Jira Administrators. It seems that your the users you mention have administrator permissions while they probably shouldn't.