Overview

A Jira Administrator configures Delegated Project Admin Pro for Jira to indicate what can be delegated and who can perform project administrative actions as a Delegated Project Administrator. Once configured, a Delegated Project Administrator will see the Delegated Project Admin option in the sidebar when viewing a project for which they have project administration rights. The project administration rights are based on the Permission Scheme associated with a project and correspond to the "Administer Project" permission.

You will not see this sidebar option if:

• You do not have this permission on the current project
• A Jira Administrator has not delegated any schemes when configuring the app
• A Jira Administrator has not delegated any project administration capabilities to your username, any group of which you are a member, or to your role (if applicable) as the Project Lead
• The project delegation is stopped or disabled for the current project using the Stop Delegation option in Advanced Settings

Initially, all projects start off in Guided Path mode. Guided Path mode allows a Delegated Project Administrator to switch a project from one scheme to another.

Each type of scheme is represented by a tab on this screen:

• Issue Types - defines the issue types that can be used on issues in the current project
• Fields - defines the fields that are available to the project and whether each is required or optional
• Screens - defines the fields available for each issue type when an issue is created, edited or viewed
• Workflows - defines the lifecycle of issues for each available issue type
• Notifications - defines who is notified when a workflow transition or issue operation is performed against an issue in the project
• Permissions - defines who is permitted to perform certain actions on the project or its issues
• Priorities - defines the importance of a Jira issue with respect to the others in a project and provides an insight into the issues that require utmost attention

A tab is displayed only when a Jira Administrator has delegated administration of that scheme type to you during the app configuration. One Delegated Project Administrator could see more or fewer tabs than another, if their Delegated Project Admin permissions are different.

Each tab lists the scheme currently in use on the project and contains 2 buttons Select different Scheme and History. 

Selecting a different scheme

Clicking the Select Different Scheme button will display a popup similar to what is shown below:

Click I'm sure - Change the <xxx> Scheme to proceed. Another screen, similar to what is shown below, will be shown so that you can review other available schemes and identify the one to switch to. The list of available schemes is configurable by your Jira Administrator.

Click Preview to review any of the schemes (including the one currently in use). Once you have determined the one you want the project to start using, click Select.

When you switch to a different Workflow scheme, please note that you will be presented with an additional screen in which you must specify how to map issue statuses from the old workflow to the new one. Once you have completed the mapping, click Migrate to perform the change. (This additional screen does not appear for other types of schemes.)

Once the change has been performed, a confirmation screen will appear. In addition, the change will be recorded in an audit trail for that scheme.

Click Close to dismiss this screen and return to the Delegated Project Admin screen.

Viewing History 

While on any tab of the Delegated Admin screen, you can click History to view the audit trail for the current scheme type.

Changes appear in reverse chronological order (most recent changes on top). In most cases, each change will have a Roll back link that you can use to undo a scheme change. Changes can be rolled back in any sequence, and a roll back itself can be undone. In the screen above, if the second Roll back link was clicked, you would see the following screen confirming that the project was reverted to the scheme shown in the Changed From column: "PRM: Project Management Issue Type Scheme."

If you then clicked History again, you would see that the project is now using its original Issue Type scheme.

Viewing Workflows

The Workflows tab has a View Workflow link that allows you to see a visual representation of the workflow that the project is currently using.

If you decide to switch to a different workflow and click Select Different Scheme, you will see the confirmation screen described above where you must click I'm sure - Change the Workflow Scheme to proceed. The next screen contains a Select button as well as a Preview workflows dropdown next to each available workflow scheme. The "Preview workflows" dropdown allows you to see the name of the workflow associated with each issue type available on the project. Click the name of the workflow within the "Preview workflows" dropdown to see a visual representation of that workflow.

Priority Scheme

As the priority scheme is introduced in Jira from 7.6 version onwards, we have delegated the editing and switching of the priority schemes to the project admins like any other scheme.

Priority scheme in Guided Path mode

Select Priority scheme dialog

When you select I'm sure - Change the Priority Scheme, a popup with the available priority schemes is displayed for you to select from.

You can preview and select a scheme based on your requirements.

Priority Scheme Preview Dialog

Priority Scheme History Dialog

Priority Scheme Migration Dialog

When you are in Guided Path mode and want to associate a different priority scheme with a project that already has a priority scheme set, you might be asked to replace any obsolete priorities. That's because some issues are using priorities that are not available in the new priority scheme. An issue can't live without a priority, so you need to replace the old with the new.

When you click the Migrate button, issues in the project will be mapped to the new priorities and the completion dialog will show the number of issues that were migrated.

Priority Scheme Completion Dialog

Entering Self-Service mode

When a project is in Guided Path mode, Delegated Project Administrators who have been given Self-Service ability by a Jira Administrator will see an Enter Self-Service Mode button in the top right corner of the Delegated Project Admin screen. Clicking this button places the project into Self-Service mode.

More information about working in Self-Service mode can be found in Using Self-Service Mode - 2.6.