Permissions needed by TFS4JIRA Synchronizer

Jira issues and TFS / Azure DevOps work item synchronization

TFS4JIRA Synchronizer connects to Jira using the credentials provided in the synchronization profile. For the work items / issues synchronization to work, the user must have the following permissions:

Jira permissions

PermissionRequiredNotes

Add Comments

(info)Only if Comments synchronization is enabled
Assign Issues(info)Only if the Assignee field is mapped
Browse Projects(tick)
Close Issues(tick)

Create Attachments

(info)Only if Attachment synchronization is enabled
Create Issues(tick)

Delete Issues

(warning)

Only if you want TFS4JIRA to delete issues that were not sync'ed properly

Edit All Worklogs

(info)Only if Time Tracking fields are mapped

Edit Issues

(tick)

Link Issues

(info)

Only if links are mapped (e.g. Epic Links)

Modify Reporter

(info)Only if the Reporter field is mapped

Resolve Issues

(tick)

Transition Issues

(tick)

Work On Issues

(info)Only if Time Tracking fields are mappe

TFS / Azure DevOps permissions

User GroupRequiredNotes

Contributors

(tick)Minimum set of permission

Permission

Required

Notes
Bypass rules on work item updates(info)

TFS / Azure DevOps check-ins synchronization

TFS4JIRA Synchronizer connects to Jira using the credentials provided in the check-ins scanning configuration. For the check-ins synchronization to work, the user must have the following permissions:

Jira permissions

Permission

Required

Notes

Browse Projects(tick)
Edit Issues(warning)

Required in TFS4JIRA > 7.4
No longer required in TFS4JIRA 7.5 or newer

View Development Tools(tick)

TFS / Azure DevOps permissions

Permission

Required

Notes

Read(tick)

Permission to read the repository

View project-level information(tick)User needs to be able to view the project