Explore roles for a software space
5 min
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Explain what tasks viewers, members, and space admins can perform
How can you access a software space?
In Jira, space roles control how people access and interact with a software space. Space admins assign users to roles to give them specific permissions. There are three typical roles:
- Administrator
- Member
- Viewer
👇 Click the tabs below to learn more about each of these roles.
The Administrator role enables users to:
- Assign users to space roles
- Edit space details, like name, description, avatar, and URL, as well as the space lead
- Configure boards and field layout
In team-managed spaces, the Administrator role can make all space configurations. In company-managed spaces, the role is more restricted.
For company-managed spaces, only the Administrators space role is a default role for software spaces in Jira.
Team-managed space admins and Jira admins can also create custom roles to meet a team’s needs.
👉 For example: The Security team works with engineers across the company to test and troubleshoot. They want these engineers to be able to view work, add comments, and update fields in the work item, but they don’t want the engineers to transition the work item between statuses. The Security space admin creates a new “Partner engineer” role and assigns that role view, comment, and edit permissions, but not the work item transition permission.
Let’s look at an example
Haru is a space admin for a company-managed software space. Two of her senior team members create most of the work in her space. They also manage work in the backlog.
Haru wants to give these senior teammates the ability to delete work items. The Administrators role has the ability to delete work items, but would give these teammates too much access to configure the space. The Members and Viewers roles can’t delete work items.