Permissions required to manage automation flows
Space automation
By default, all space admins can create and manage automation flows for their spaces. To be a space admin, they’ll need the following permission:
Company-managed spaces: Anyone with the Administer spaces and Browse spaces permissions can create and manage automation flows for their space. Learn more about permission schemes
Team-managed spaces: Anyone with Administrator access can create and manage automation flows for their space. Learn more about permissions for team-managed spaces
Stop space admins from creating and managing automation flows for their space
Global admins can disable the ability for space admins to create and manage flows. However, system flows will still be created when a space is created. Read more about system flows
Select Settings (), then System.
Select Global automation.
Select More actions (), then Global configuration.
Use the dropdown to choose specific users and groups, or uncheck Allow space administrators to manage space flows to remove the ability for space admins to create and manage flows for their spaces.
Global automation
Anyone who has the Administer Jira global permission can create and manage automation flows across all of Jira. Learn more about global permissions in Jira Cloud.
Admins with the Administer Jira global permission can:
Create and manage automation flows with any scope. This means they can create single-space flows, multi-space flows, or flows that affect all spaces.
View Jira-wide automation data, such as number of executions used.
Team automations
Once Operations are enabled for their teams, all Operations admins can create and manage automation flows. Read more about Operations.
Operations admins are different from team admins. Anyone with the user role Admin in a team’s Operations is an operations admin. Read more about member roles in operations.
To create and manage automations in Operations:
Go to your team, and select Go to operations from your team detail.
Select Automation in the sidebar.
Create a flow from the flow builder.
Recurring work automations
By default, any user with view and edit permissions can create recurring work automations within a space. How to set up a recurring work item
These automations allow for a specific work item to be cloned automatically based on a schedule.
Executions of these automations count towards edition usage limits. How is my usage calculated?
Stop non-admins from creating and managing recurring work automation flows
Global admins can turn off the ability for non-admins to create and manage recurring work flows.
Selec Settings (), then select System.
Select Global automation.
Select More actions (), then select Global configuration.
Uncheck Allow non-admins to create recurring flows
Existing recurring work automations will need to be manually deleted.
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