We're updating our terminology in Jira

'Issue' is changing to 'work item'. You might notice some inconsistencies while this big change takes place.

Add your team to team-managed boards

This page is for team-managed projects

To check whether your project is team-managed or company-managed, select More actions (•••) next to the project name in either the header or the sidebar. At the bottom of the menu that opens, your project details will be shown.

If you're in a company-managed project, check out these company-managed project articles instead.

More about the difference between company-managed and team-managed projects.

 

Add team members to your team-managed board

Your team members must first be added to your Jira Cloud site with access to software projects before getting access to your board. For more information, see Creating, editing, and deleting users in the Jira admin documentation.

Via a work item on your board 

Open a work item and assign it to someone (as long as you've already added them to your Jira Cloud site) to add them to your project:

  1. Select a card to view the work item’s details.

  2. Select the assignee field and select a team member. They will be added to the board and assigned this work item.

From your project

Select More actions (•••) next to the project name in either the header or the sidebar. Select Add people.

Via Project settings

  1. Next to your service project’s name in the sidebar, select More actions (•••), then Project settings.Then select Access. 

  2. On the page, select Add people.

Assign roles

Roles (also known as permissions) control what each person can see and do on your board.

  1. Next to your service project’s name in the sidebar, select More actions (•••), then Project settings.Then select Access.

  2. When you click Add people on the page, you'll be prompted to select each person's role from the drop-down menu:

The Add people dialogue. A user has been added, and the dropdown Role provides different role types (admin, member, viewer)

You can edit their roles (or permissions) at any time by choosing from the drop-down list beside their name. You also have the option of removing people from your board by clicking Remove.

Flag a work item for attention

Flagging a work item informs your teammates that a work item needs extra attention. For example, you could use a flag to indicate that you don't have capacity to finish a task, or to indicate that a work item is blocked and you'll work on it later.

On team-managed boards, flagged work items are shaded yellow:

A cropped issue card view. The card's shaded red, and has a red flag, title, and issue key.

To flag a work item:

  1. Hover over a work item and select More actions (). You can also select multiple work items at once by holding Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac).

  2. Select Add flag.

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