What are global permissions, and what do they control?
At the highest level, Jira admins can control access to their site and cross-space permissions on the Global permissions page. These permissions apply across the entirety of your site, and can be granted to groups created by your Organization admin. More about managing groups
On this page, we’ll go through the permissions that can be granted across your entire site. For permissions within a space, see our section about permissions in spaces.
Types of global permissions
Administer Jira
If you’re an Organization admin or a Site admin, you’ll need to add yourself to the jira-administrators group. More about administration roles outside Jira
Throughout this documentation, we’ll refer to any user with this permission as a Jira admin.
Users with this permission can:
create new spaces (both company-managed and team-managed)
create and edit
configurations for work types, fields, and workflows and
schemes for fields, permissions, and notifications
log in to Jira at any time, regardless of any restrictions placed on access
Users with this permission cannot:
manage existing users or add new ones
import and export data
edit system email settings
Browse users and groups
Users with this permission can view the names of all users in your site when using User picker type fields or @mentioning users in comments.
Users without this permission will only be able to see users who have the Browse spaces permission in the space they’re viewing. This is a common way to limit information when sharing spaces widely.
Share dashboards and filters
Users with this permission can share dashboards and filters with other users, provided they have permission to view it.
More about sharing data from your site
Manage group filter subscriptions
Users with this permission can create and delete group filter subscriptions.
Make bulk changes
Provided they have the necessary space permissions, users with this permission can:
edit, move, or delete multiple work items at the same time
transition multiple work items at one time through a workflow
Create team-managed spaces
With this permission, users can only create team-managed spaces (not company-managed spaces which is defined using the Administer Jira permission).
What are the differences between company-managed and team-managed spaces?
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