Manage your teams' product access

This section defines the user types within the product. Users with a license will use the product as creators and users without a license will use it as contributors. There are differences between the two roles:

Add a user as a creator

1. On the top nav bar, select > User Management > Directory

2. Search for a particular user and click the name to see the products and groups this person has access to.

3. Grant product access by clicking Add products > under Jira Product Discovery click User, check User and click Grant.

4. This user is now a Creator by default.

Add a user as contributor

If the user has access to a Jira family product

If the user has access to a Jira product, they have access to Jira Product Discovery as Contributors by default.

If the user doesn’t have access to any Jira family product

Before you begin

• Check How to create the contributors group below.

Steps

1. On the top nav bar, select > User Management > Directory

2. Search for a particular user and click the name to see the products and groups this person has access.

3. Click Add to groups and add the user to the Jira Product Discovery contributors group.

How to create the contributors group

Once you create this group, anyone with an Atlassian account added to the site user list who is also added to the group can be a Contributor to Jira Product Discovery projects for free.

Steps

1. Select a project and go to Project Settings > Access.

2. At the top and inside the blue banner, click Learn more about product access, and under Contributor, click contributors group. This link takes you to a Jira admin page where you can enable the Contributor group.