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JIRA Essentials

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA Essentials

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
JIRA Essentials Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Help Desk project


In the previous chapters, you configured your JIRA to capture data with customized screens and fields, and processed the captured data through workflows. What you need to do now is secure the data you have gathered to make sure that only the authorized users can access and manipulate issues.

Since your Help Desk project is used by the internal team, what you really need to do is put enough permission around your issues to ensure the data they hold do not get modified by other users, usually by mistake. This allows us to mitigate human errors by handling access accordingly.

To achieve this, you need to have the following requirements:

  • Be able to tell who belongs to the Help Desk team

  • Restrict issue assign operations to only the user that has submitted the ticket and members of the Help Desk team

  • Do not allow tickets to be moved to other projects

  • Limit the assignee of tickets to the reporter and members of the Help Desk team

Of course, there are a lot of other permissions we...