There are three types of permissions in Jira applications, and they range from the high-level to granular:
- Global permissions – These apply to applications as a whole, not individual projects (for example, whether users can see the other users in the application).
- Project permissions – Organized into permission schemes, these apply to projects (e.g. who can see the project’s issues, create, edit and assign them). While project admins can assign users to a project, they can’t customize the permission schemes for a project. There are lots of project-level permissions you can set to control what users can do within a project.
- Issue security permissions – Organized into security schemes, these allow the visibility of individual issues to be adjusted (within the bounds of the project’s permissions). For example, issue security permissions can let you set up types of issues that can only be seen by project admins or users in specific groups.