Swanly's permission settings allow you to establish limitations on users who can create, edit or view roadmaps, both in the issue and release view.
Three permissions are available on the global level (Administer Swanly, Create issue roadmaps, Create release roadmaps), 1 permission is set on the project level (Manage releases in Swanly), while 2 permissions work on the plan level (Editor and Viewer).
Release Roadmap Creator Swanly
Administer Swanly permission
Users with this permission are allowed to:
create and edit the roadmap
configure roadmaps
grant and remove roadmap access
configure Swanly
see and edit all releases and issues across all projects
To edit Swanly permission, you must be a Jira Administrator with permission set up as global (not project-specific).
👉 How to add or remove ‘administer Swanly permission’
Ensure to have proper Jira permissions for your project to edit or create issues in roadmaps.
Read more about project permissions in Jira in the Atlassian documentation.
Issue Roadmap Creator Swanly
The Issue Roadmap Creator Swanly permission is assigned on the global level and allows users to do the following actions:
create issue roadmaps
edit issue roadmaps
grant and remove roadmap access
Release Roadmap Creator Swanly
The Release Roadmap Creator Swanly permission is assigned on the global level and allows users to do the following actions:
create release roadmaps
edit release roadmaps
grant and remove roadmap access
Read more about global permissions in Jira in the Atlassian documentation.
Manage releases in Swanly
Manage releases in Swanly permission is assigned on the project level and allows users to do the following actions:
create releases
edit releases
delete releases
Read more about project permissions in Jira in the Atlassian documentation.
Edit Roadmap
Edit Roadmap permission is granted on the roadmap level and allows users to edit the roadmap for the projects where they have access to edit issues. Users with this permission can do the following actions within the roadmap:
import/unimport projects
create issues (releases)
schedule, reschedule issues (releases)
edit issue details
add child issues to parent, add issues to release
View Roadmap
View Roadmap permission is granted on the roamdap level and allows users to view the roadmap for the projects where they have access to view issues. Users with this permission can do the following actions within the roadmap:
view roadmap and list
view issue (release) details