The versions of JIRA prior to JIRA 7 used Global Permissions to enable control access. Users will need to have the JIRA Users permission in order to gain access. In this recipe, we will take a look at managing access to JIRA with the new application access management feature.
Proceed with the following steps to grant JIRA access to a group:
- Log in to JIRA as a JIRA administrator.
- Navigate to Administration | Applications | Application access.
- Select and add the group to gain access to JIRA under JIRA Software.
Starting with JIRA 7, Atlassian introduced the new concept of Applications. This turns JIRA into a platform, and major features such as JIRA Agile (now called JIRA Software) and JIRA Service Desk are now separate applications that run on the JIRA platform.
These changes mean that you can now control user access to each of the applications individually. Instead of using permissions to control who can access JIRA, you assign access rights based on the application.
In our example, we grant groups such as jira-software-users and jira-administrators access to the JIRA Software application, so anyone in either of those two groups will be able to log in to JIRA, and use its features.
If you have assigned more than one group to an application from the application access page, you can select one or more groups as the default group. This means that, when new users are added to the system, they will be automatically added to the default group, so they can start using JIRA right away.