hasPermission

Availability

This routine is available starting with katl-commons 2.0.6 for Jira 5.x or katl-commons 1.1.13 for Jira 4.3.x/4.4.x.

Syntax

hasPermission(permissionId, user[, issueKey])

Description

Checks if a user has the specified permission

Parameters

Parameter name	Type	Required	Description
permissionId	Number	Yes	Permission ID.
user	String	Yes	Username or userkey to check the permission for.
issueKey	String	No	Issue key. Only required for non-global permissions.

Permissions

Category	Permissions	Description	ID
Global Permissions	Jira Administrators	Ability to perform most administration functions (excluding Import & Export, SMTP Configuration, etc.).	0
	Bulk Change	Ability to modify a collection of issues at once. For example, resolve multiple issues in one step.	33
	Create Shared Objects	Ability to share dashboards and filters with other users, groups and roles.	22
	Manage Group Filter Subscriptions	Ability to manage (create and delete) group filter subscriptions.	24
	Jira System Administrators	Ability to perform all administration functions. There must be at least one group with this permission.	44
	Jira Users	Ability to log in to Jira. They are a 'user'. Any new users created will automatically join these groups, unless those groups have Jira System Administrators or Jira Administrators permissions.	1
	Browse Users	Ability to select a user or group from a popup window as well as the ability to use the 'share' issues feature. Users with this permission will also be able to see names of all users and groups in the system.	27
Project Permissions	Administer Projects	Ability to administer a project in Jira.	23
	Browse Projects	Ability to browse projects and the issues within them.	10
	View Version Control	Ability to view Version Control commit information for issues.	29
	View Read-Only Workflow	Users with this permission may view a read-only version of a workflow.	45
	Assign Issues	Ability to assign issues to other people.	13
	Assignable User	Users with this permission may be assigned to issues.	17
	Close Issues	Ability to close issues. Often useful where your developers resolve issues, and a QA department closes them.	18
	Create Issues	Ability to create issues.	11
	Delete Issues	Ability to delete issues.	16
	Edit Issues	Ability to edit issues.	12
	Link Issues	Ability to link issues together and create linked issues. Only useful if issue linking is turned on.	21
	Modify Reporter	Ability to modify the reporter when creating or editing an issue.	30
	Move Issues	Ability to move issues between projects or between workflows of the same project (if applicable). Note the user can only move issues to a project he or she has the create permission for.	25
	Resolve Issues	Ability to resolve and reopen issues. This includes the ability to set a fix version.	14
	Schedule Issues	Ability to set or edit an issue's due date.	28
	Set Issue Security	Ability to set the level of security on an issue so that only people in that security level can see the issue.	26
	Manage Watchers	Ability to manage the watchers of an issue.	32
	View Voters and Watchers	Ability to view the voters and watchers of an issue	31
	Delete All Comments	Ability to delete all comments made on issues.	36
	Delete Own Comments	Ability to delete own comments made on issues.	37
	Edit All Comments	Ability to edit all comments made on issues.	34
	Edit Own Comments	Ability to edit own comments made on issues.	35
	Add Comments	Ability to comment on issues.	15
	Delete All Attachments	Users with this permission may delete all attachments.	38
	Delete Own Attachments	Users with this permission may delete own attachments.	39
	Create Attachments	Users with this permission may create attachments.	19
	Work On Issues	Ability to log work done against an issue. Only useful if Time Tracking is turned on.	20
	Delete All Worklogs	Ability to delete all worklogs made on issues.	43
	Delete Own Worklogs	Ability to delete own worklogs made on issues.	42
	Edit All Worklogs	Ability to edit all worklogs made on issues.	41
	Edit Own Worklogs	Ability to edit own worklogs made on issues.	40
	Transition Issues	Ability to transition issues.	46

Return type

boolean

Returns "true" if the user has the specified permission or "false" otherwise.

Note

This routine also verifies the issue security level. If the specified user cannot see the issue because his security level does not allow it, the routine will return "false" for the project permissions even if the user does have the specified privilege. This happens because the issue security comes first and will prohibit the user from taking actions that are otherwise allowed by the permission scheme.

The look-up is first made after the userkey, then after the username.

Example

Example 1

for(string user in usersInGroups({"QA-Testers"})){
	if(hasPermission(17, user, key)){
		assignee = user;
		return;
	}
}

Result: The issue will be assigned to one of the testers who have the permission to be assigned issues on the current project.

Example 2

Tip

Attached to this page is permissions.incl that contains variable definitions for all the above permissions. You can upload this file to your Jira instance via the SIL Manager, include it in your scripts and then use the variables defined there to make the code easier to understand.

Using permissions.incl the above example will look like this:

include "permissions.incl"; // assuming the file is in the default programs folder 
for(string user in usersInGroups({"QA-Testers"})){ 
	if(hasPermission(ASSIGNABLE_USER, user, key)){ 
		assignee = user; 
		return; 
	} 
}