Documentation for JIRA 4.4. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

A JIRA project role is a flexible way to associate users and/or groups with a particular project.

Unlike groups, which have the same membership throughout JIRA, project roles have specific members for each project. Users may play different roles in different projects.

(info) This page contains instructions for managing membership of existing project roles. For information on creating and using project roles, please see Managing project roles.

プロジェクト ロール メンバーの表示

To see which users and groups belong to each project role for a particular project:

  1. Login to JIRA as a project administrator. (A project administrator is someone who has the project-specific permission 'Administer Project', but not necessarily the global permission 'JIRA Administrators'.)
  2. Click the 'Administration' link at the top of the screen.
  3. Click 'Projects' and select the project of interest.
    (tick) Keyboard shortcut: 'g' + 'g' + start typing 'project'
  4. You will now see the Project Summary screen (see Defining a Project). At the right of the page, a summary of the project's people is displayed (see Screenshot 1 below).
  5. Click 'View Project Roles' to display the 'People' screen (see Screenshot 2 below). From here you can manage the project role membership as described below.


Screenshot 1: The 'People' section of the 'Project Summary' screen

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Screenshot 2: The 'People' screen

ユーザーをプロジェクト ロールに割り当てる

  1. Open the 'People' screen (see Screenshot 2) as described in 'Viewing project role members' above.
  2. Hover over the 'Users' column for the project role in which you are interested (e.g. 'Administrators') and click the yellow box which appears.
  3. The users and groups will become editable (see Screenshot 3). Type the name of the user(s) you wish to add to this project role. Then click the 'Update' button.


Screenshot 3: Editing project role membership

Removing a user from a project role

  1. Open the 'People' screen (see Screenshot 2) as described in 'Viewing project role members' above.
  2. Hover over the 'Users' column for the project role in which you are interested (e.g. 'Administrators') and click the yellow box which appears.
  3. The users and groups will become editable (see Screenshot 3). Click the 'x' next to the name of the user(s) you wish to remove from this project role. Then click the 'Update' button.

Assigning a group to a project role

  1. Open the 'People' screen (see Screenshot 2) as described in 'Viewing project role members' above.
  2. Hover over the 'Groups' column for the project role in which you are interested (e.g. 'Administrators') and click the yellow box which appears.
  3. The users and groups will become editable (see Screenshot 3). Type the name of the group(s) you wish to add to this project role. Then click the 'Update' button.

Group membership can only be viewed/edited by people with the global 'JIRA Administrator' permission. Project administrators may therefore prefer to assign users, rather than groups, to their project roles.

Removing a group from a project role

  1. Open the 'People' screen (see Screenshot 2) as described in 'Viewing project role members' above.
  2. Hover over the 'Groups' column for the project role in which you are interested (e.g. 'Administrators') and click the yellow box which appears.
  3. The users and groups will become editable (see Screenshot 3). Click the 'x' next to the name of the group(s) you wish to remove from this project role. Then click the 'Update' button.

A project role need not have any users or groups assigned to it, although project administrators should be careful with this. Depending on how a project role is used (e.g. if the project's permission scheme is using project roles), it is possible that not having anyone in a particular project role could make some project activities unavailable.



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