Lock a board in JIra

[Roja Gurram]

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to lock a board so that only specified users can move tickets on that board?

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hey Roja,

You can control who can move tickets on a board in two ways. 

1. Update the Permission Scheme associated with the project to modify the Transition Issues to only those who can move issues for the entire board. 

or

2. Place conditions on each Transition in the workflow to limit who can move cards to those statuses. 

[Roja Gurram]

Hi John,

Thanks a lot for your response. Understood.

Is it possible to lock a specific Kanban board within a project that has multiple Kanban's so that only specified users can move tickets on that board?

Could you please confirm before making changes ? 

[Roja Gurram]

Hi John,

Any update pls?

[John Funk]

Hi Roja,

Movements on boards are related solely to the workflow. Multiple boards can use the same workflow or each board could use a different workflow. So the real question is related to the workflow itself. 

Now, even though multiple boards or projects share the same workflow, can you still limit who can move the cards by project or by user? Sure! We do that all of the time. You just use whatever combination of Conditions on the workflow transitions that you need. 

[Roja Gurram]

Hi John,

Thank you for the quick response. I understood now.

[John Funk]

Great! Glad I could help a little.