Whom to grant bulk permission. Admins only?

[Celik Vedat]

Dear community,

in our JIRA instance, we've granted Bulk Permission (no Bulk create) to non-admins as well. Somehow, I am a little bit concerned about this situation, because there might be Impacts we cannot see (or too late). Does it make sense to grant this permission to non-admins as well? Should this be a admin tool only? How did you defined this in your JIRA instance'?

Many thanks in advance

[Grigory Salnikov · Accepted solution]

Hi @Celik Vedat!

In our environment only two users are granted this permission (out of around 50). 

In my opinion bulk operations are not such common ones and required not so often. On the other hand, the damage caused by bulk operations could be devastating.

That's why I'd strongly recommend against granting this permission to everyone.

If a user needs to perform a bulk operation, she could ask a more experienced/responsible user to do it.

This my opinion in a nutshell :)

[Alexey Matveev · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I ve seen instances where all users had the bulk permission. By default only 1000 issues could be bulk moved and there were not any problems with it. 

But still in my opinion this permission must be given only to users who understand what they do and the impact they can cause.

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

I would only grant this to a limited number of TRAINED people. I've seen disasters caused by user using bulk editing in a number of tools. I also suggest any bulk editing is reviewed for mistakes and recorded exactly what was done, by who, and date/time. 

[Celik Vedat]

Many thanks to everyone for your opinions. This helped me a lot. 

Have a nice week!

[david]

Hi @Celik Vedat I'd grant permission also to Project Admins as is very difficult for them to manage projects / issues without bulk capabilities.