Project Permissions permissions in Jira JIRA serve for fine tuning access to different parts and functions inside a project. You can only access these Permissions menu if you are a Project Administrator.
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When you install Power Retro, there are several basic JIRA project permissions that you need to grant to all Power Retro users. As well, Power Retro adds some of its own permissions to the ‘Other permissions’ section that you need to grant to Power Retro users.
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The user needs to have Jira administrator permissions to grant any of these Project permissions. |
Go To grant project permissions go to [Your project] → [Project settings on the sidebar] → [Permissions] → [Retrospective Permissions]. Here the user can modify the permission scheme associated with their project.
Create Retrospective Event - lets the user(s) with this permission to create retrospective boards for the project and launch retrospective events from the Backlog. Only users with this permission can become Facilitators
Delete Retrospective Event - lets the user(s) with this permission to delete in progress or completed retrospective events from the Retrospective History
Join Retrospective Event - lets the user(s) with this permission to join in progress retrospective events
Edit Action Item - lets the user(s) with this permission to edit Action Items on the Dashboard
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The user needs to grant these permissions for each JIRA project (with the help of its permission scheme) that Power Retro users are working on. |
Which Permissions to set?
Project Permission | Description | Who should have this permission? | Useful information |
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Administer Projects | Permission to edit:
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| This is a JIRA permission that's useful for Power Retro administration. |
Browse Projects | Permission to:
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| This is a basic JIRA permission that all JIRA users need for the projects on which they're working. The project role atlassian-addons-project-access must be granted permissions to a project in order for Power Retro to function properly. See the Atlassian Jira documentation for more information. |
Create Retrospective Event | Permission to
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| JIRA users cannot create Power Retro boards or launch Retrospective events and become Facilitators without this permission |
Delete Retrospective Event | Permission to delete retrospective boards of any status. | Project managers, Product Owners or Scrum Masters | This permission lets the user delete in progress or already completed retrospective boards from the Retrospective History list |
Join Retrospective Event | Permission to join an ongoing retrospective board | All Power Retro users who participate in retrospectives | Users without this permission can’t join retrospectives. The only exceptions are users with the Retrospective administrator global permission |
Edit Action Item | Permission to edit Action Items after a retrospective event has ended. | Usually Team leads, Scrum masters, Product Owners | Editing Action Items during the retrospective event is solely the Facilitators privilege. After a retrospective has ended the Action Items can be refined further from the Dashboard. |