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Jira Cloud administration
Jira Cloud administration

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  • Discover Jira Cloud products
    • Explore Jira Cloud plans
      • What is the Free Jira Cloud plan?
    • What are the differences between Jira Cloud and Jira Server?
    • Enable Jira Software features
    • Import and export your data to and from Jira Cloud
      • Import issues
      • Import data from a CSV file
      • Common CSV file questions and known issues
      • Import CSV data with the PVCS command
      • Import data from JSON
      • Import data from Bitbucket
      • Import data from Trello
      • Export issues
      • Migrate from other issue trackers
  • Integrate Jira Cloud with other products and apps
    • Integrate with Confluence
      • Integrate with development tools
        • Enable Smart Commits
        • Integrate Jira Cloud with Bitbucket
        • Connect Jira Cloud to Bitbucket
        • Synchronize Jira Cloud to Bitbucket
        • Fix error connections between Jira Cloud and Bitbucket
        • Integrate with GitHub
        • Integrate with Bamboo
        • Integrate with FishEye
        • Integrate with feature flags
      • Integrate with self-hosted tools using OAuth
        • Integrate with Jenkins
        • Use AppLinks to link to Atlassian products
      • Integrate apps
        • Administer projects and links across multiple applications
        • Manage webhooks
      • Explore Atlassian Open DevOps
    • Manage users, groups, permissions, and roles in Jira Cloud
      • Create, edit, and delete users
      • Assign users to groups, project roles, and applications
      • Monitor a user's activity
      • Create and update groups
      • Deactivate or delete managed accounts
      • Manage permissions
        • Manage global permissions
        • Prevent or remove public access
        • Manage project permissions
        • Permissions and issue-level security in Free plans
        • Use manage sprints permission for advanced cases
        • Permissions for company-managed projects
        • Customize Jira Service Management permissions
        • Resolve Jira Service Management permission errors
      • Manage project roles
        • Manage project role membership
        • Allow anonymous access to projects
    • Configure and manage projects to track team progress
      • Create and edit a project
      • Configure projects
        • Add, assign, and delete project categories
        • Hide a project
        • Convert a project to a different template or type
        • Configure boards
        • Create release notes
        • Default configurations for Jira Service Management
        • Edit a project's details
        • Manage versions
      • Trash for Jira Cloud projects
        • Move a project to trash
        • Restore a project from trash
        • Delete a project
        • Delete a Jira Service Management project
    • Configure issues to track individual pieces of work
      • Configure issues
        • What are issues?
        • What are issue statuses, priorities, and resolutions?
        • Configure statuses, resolutions, and priorities
        • Translate resolutions, priorities, statuses, and issue types
        • Configure time tracking
        • Configure issue linking
      • Configure issue types
        • What are issue types?
        • Add, edit, and delete an issue type
        • Configure sub-tasks
        • Associate issue types with projects
        • What are issue type schemes?
        • Add, edit, and delete an issue type scheme
      • Manage issue screens
        • Manage screen schemes
        • Manage issue type screens
      • Configure issue custom fields
        • Create a custom field
        • Add a custom field to a screen
        • Custom fields types in company-managed projects
        • Configure a custom field
        • Edit a custom field’s options
        • Edit or delete a custom field
        • Translate a custom field
      • Configure custom field context
        • Add a context to a custom field
        • Edit a custom field context
        • What are locked custom fields?
        • Find your custom fields
      • Manage issue field configurations
        • Add, edit, and delete a field configuration
        • Associate field behavior with an issue type
        • Change a field configuration
        • Specify field behavior
        • Configure renderers
        • What are issue field configuration schemes?
        • Add, edit, and delete a field configuration scheme
        • Configure a field configuration scheme
    • Create and manage issue workflows and issue workflow schemes
      • Add and delete an issue workflow
      • Edit an issue workflow
      • Manage issue workflows
      • Work with issue workflows
      • Import and export issue workflows
      • Configure advanced issue workflows
        • Work in text mode
        • Add a custom event
        • Configure the initial status
        • Understand workflow triggers
        • Configure workflow triggers
        • Use workflow triggers for company-managed projects
        • Troubleshoot workflow triggers
        • Use workflow validators with custom fields
        • Use workflow validators for company-managed projects
        • Use workflow properties
      • Configure issue workflow schemes
        • Add, edit, and delete an issue workflow scheme
        • Configure workflow schemes
        • Configure notification schemes
        • Configure issue security schemes
      • Use the issue collector
        • Customize the Jira issue collector
    • System administration
      • Configure global settings
        • Configure Jira application options
        • Configure advanced settings
        • Configure file attachments
        • Enable logout confirmation
        • Change the default order for comments
        • Configure session timeout
        • Audit activities in Jira applications
      • Manage shared items
        • Manage shared filters
        • Manage shared dashboards
      • Customize the layout and design of Jira applications
        • Configure the look and feel of Jira applications
      • Configure dashboards
        • Configure the default dashboard
        • Configure custom dashboards
        • Use dashboard gadgets
        • Configure the default issue navigator
        • Configure the user default settings
        • Create links in the application navigator
      • Configure email in Jira applications
        • Configure Jira Cloud to send emails on behalf of your domain
        • Configure email notifications
        • Configure email notifications for a custom event
        • Create issues and comments from email
      • Use the Jira Admin Helper
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    Configure global settings

    Configure session timeout

    You can configure the expiration period for a Jira Cloud session. For detailed information, see Session duration management. 

    Last modified on Oct 9, 2019

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