Add people to your team or change project roles

Project roles are a flexible way to associate users and groups with particular projects. These are the existing project roles.

• Administrator can do most things, like update settings and add other admins to the project. They can manage features, customize issue types, and add rules on the board. Admins need product access to Jira Software to get the full benefit of this role.

• Members are a part of the team. They can create issues, edit them, comment on them, move them into different statuses, and generally collaborate on your project's work. Members need product access to Jira Software to get the full benefit of this role.

• Viewer can search through and view issues in your project, but not much else. You can give any registered user on your Jira site this role without extra product access.

Product roles are different from project roles. When you work with roles, you can see that some of the actions have the product role name next to them. This is to indicate whether a licensed or unlicensed user will have access to it. Jira Product Discovery supports two types of product roles assigned by a site administrator in the Directory:

• Creators: Users with product access to Jira Product Discovery (licensed users). They can use all features based on the access they're given in each project.

• Contributors: Users without Jira Product Discovery product access are called contributors (unlicensed users). They can only use a subset of features, for example, open ideas and views in read-only mode with the ability to vote and comment.

Before you begin

• You need to be a Jira Product Discovery admin to make the changes.

• Beware that when you give someone a role, they inherit the role given by your project access:

  • In Open projects, everyone on your Jira site is given the default Member role.

  • In Limited projects, everyone on your Jira site is given the default Viewer role.

  • In Private projects, only Jira admins and people you add to the project have a role.

Add users

Steps

1. Go to your project sidebar and select Project settings > Access.

2. Click Add users.

3. Select the team member you want to add and choose their role. Once you’re happy with the change, click Add.

4. You can change the role anytime by going to the name of the person and changing the role under the role dropdown list.

Manage project roles

Create a new role

1. Go to your project sidebar and select Project settings > Access.

2. Click Manage project roles.

3. Select Create new role.

4. Type in a role name, role description, and choose the actions the people in that role can perform.

5. When you’re ready, click Create role.

Duplicate an existing role

1. Go to your project sidebar and select Project settings > Access.

2. Click Manage project roles.

3. In the list of roles, choose one that you want to duplicate and click and edit the fields you need.

4. When you’re ready, click Create role.