Types of permissions in your plan

Plans has a separate permissions model from that found in the rest of Jira. However, administrators can automatically grant plans permissions to users based on their Jira global permissions. Find out how to change permissions in your plan based on Jira permissions.

The levels of access for plans are:

• Plans administrator

• Plans shared team management

• Plans user

• Plans viewer

In order to edit work items in plans, users need to have project permissions as well.

See limit who can view your plan based on individual users or user groups.

Plans administrator

Users with this permission can perform all administrative functions in plans, including accessing any private plans.

Shared team management

Users with this permission can access global team management and edit teams that are shared across plans. This permission is being made redundant with the introduction of our new Teams platform. Read more about these changes.

Plans user

Users with this permission can create plans and view plans they have access to. For plans they can access, they can also edit their work item sources, edit any work items in the plans, and save these edited work item details in Jira. This is the minimum permission level required to share a plan as an image, a .csv, or as an embedded element.

It’s possible for a user to have the Plans user permission, but lack the permission to edit a project included in the plan. If this is the case, the user won’t be able to save their changes using the Review changes button.

Plans viewer

Users with this permission can browse and view plans in read-only mode, but can’t update or change any plan details. They also can’t access to export a plan to an image, .csv, or as an embedded element.