"You don't have permission to modify the reporter in this project" in Jira Cloud

Summary

Users in Jira Cloud may run into the error "You don't have permission to modify the reporter in this project" when attempting to submit work.

Solution

User lacks permission to set the Reporter field

This error occurs because the user trying to submit work does not have the project permission Modify reporter (or Edit reporters, in team-managed projects).

Reporter field is linked in an Advanced Form

If you link Jira's Reporter field to a field in an Advanced Form, users who try to submit will run into this error because they don't have permission to set the Reporter field in Jira work items.

To fix the problem, you must ensure that either the user has permission to modify the reporter field in the project or unlink the field in the Advanced Form.

Related article

• Overview of Jira Cloud permissions