JIRA Project Admin Rights

[andy.pawl]

I jumped into JIRA Cloud after years of On Prem. I an an Administrator for the cloud instance and I need to update some fields on screen across multiple Projects. However there are a few projects in which I do not have the approrpiate access to. It appears as though they have been locked down. I can Create a field but I cannot add or remove an existing field. The former JIRA admin is no longer here and the Permissions are sort of all over the place.

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @andy.pawl,

Welcome to Atlassian Community.

If you go to one of the projects you cannot delete a field in, does it say "You're in a next-gen project" on bottom in the left-hand corner? Next-gen projects doesn't allow you to delete fields, and you cannot share fields across different next-gen projects. See them as silo projects.

[andy.pawl]

OMG They are.... What would be the business case for these sorts of projects? 

Big thanks BTW.

[Mikael Sandberg]

The business case is that it makes it easy for a new/small teams to set up and get going with Jira really quick, no need to configure workflows, screens etc. As an admin I can see the benefits with them, but they also have some major limitations too.

[andy.pawl]

Thanks brother! That's what I am seeing now. Just too many limitations.