How to allow a user to create a project that is only visible to members in their group

[Ken Lindberg]

I have 3 different groups in my JIRA app. I have it set up so members of each group can only view projects/issues that are assigned to their group.

But when one of those users creates a project, ALL users in all 3 groups can see that project!

How can I allow each user to create a project that is automatically only visible to other members of that group?

I know that I, as the Administrator, can manually change Permissions, etc. so this happens, but I'd like certain users to be able to create a project for their group

[Fazila Ashraf · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ken Lindberg

If your user is able to create a project in JIRA then they should be already a JIRA administrator.

As you said, they can manually change the permissions by adding only the specific groups to the project's roles. 

So what problem are you trying to address with "I'd like certain users to be able to create a project for their group" ?

[Ken Lindberg]

Fazila, thank you for your response.

I do not want the users of each group to even be aware of the other groups. They are different Clients of my company. It would be bad PR for one of my clients to create a new Project and have that new Project be visible to my other Clients.

I want specific users to be able to create a new Project without having to worry about other groups even seeing that new project.

Right now, I am the only one who can create a new Project and manage permissions of the project and the users.

[Fazila Ashraf]

@Ken Lindberg, ok. Note that if you give users access to create projects (jira administrator) they will have full control over the JIRA data.

It is a good idea for you to continue creating projects on request basis.

If you have to let them create the project by some means with out granting them jira admin access, then you could look at the commercial plugin https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.wittified.jira.project-creator/server/overview?_ga=2.15970737.645952502.1519018915-373385019.1502292957 or write some custom script using JIRA APIs / JIRA REST APIs.

[Ken Lindberg]

Ok, for now, I'll create projects on request.

I'll check out that link also.

Thank you!

[Ken Lindberg]

Do you know if that product at the link available for JIRA cloud?

[Craig Castle-Mead]

Ken,

The delegated project creator is server only.

You’ll need to create the projects for them in the meantime.

if you want to keep the users from each client unaware of each other, you’ll need ensure the browse users global permission is off (https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/managing-global-permissions-802592439.html) but this will impact their ability to @ mention users in comments etc.

CCM