Permission schemes allow you to limit or extend access of users to information and actions, on Approval Path for Jira, you can benefit from permission schemes on the project and issue levels.
You can find out more about permission schemes here.
Permission schemes help you customize user access to information and actions, however, if you do not need to customize permissions, Approval Path has a default permission scheme in place.
Project and global administrators can view the Approval Path project settings page and manage definitions:
Manage Approvals in the project - This will allow the user to view the project settings page.
Add new Approval definition - This will allow the user to create new approval definitions.
Edit existing Approval definition - This will allow the user to edit existing definitions.
By default, all users who can view the issue can view the Approval Path section and perform all approval actions on the issue, which include:
View Approval Path - This will allow the user to view the ongoing approval path.
Start new Approval - This will allow the user to start a predefined approval path from the list.
Reset ongoing Approval - This will allow the user to reset an ongoing approval path.
Parametrize Approval - This will allow the user to change parameters when starting a new approval.
Delete Approval - This will allow the user to delete existing approval path.
Archive Approval - This will allow the user to to archive existing approval path
As an administrator, you can navigate to the global settings of Approval Path,
Click on the “Apps” dropdown menu
Select the “Approval path” option
Select the “Permissions” tab
On the permissions page, you can enable permission schemes,
Changes to this page are automatically saved, you can now navigate to the permission schemes,
Next to your profile, select the settings (⚙️)
Select the “Issues” option
Scroll down the side panel on the left side of the page
Select the “Permission schemes” option
Find the scheme that includes your project
On the “Actions” column, click on the “Permissions” button
Scroll down to the “Issue Permissions” section
Find the “Approval Path” permissions
You can update these permissions (Add) or remove existing permissions; you can grant permissions using the following options:
Project Role
Administrator
Atlassian-addons-project-access - This will grant access to add-ons - More information.
Service Desk Customers
Service Desk Team
Application Access
Jira Software
Jira Core - This will grant access to Jira only excluding agile
Group
Public (Heads up: Anyone on the internet can perform these tasks if you grant permission to the 'Public' group.)
Any logged-in user
Service Project Customer - Portal Access
Reporter
Single user
Project lead
Current assignee
As well as custom fields:
User custom field value
Group custom field value
Changes to this page are automatically saved.
Leaving the permission fields empty will deny access to all users. |
Global administrators and software administrators will always have access to view project settings |