Managing your user profile

Editing your user details

In the Details section on the Summary page, click the edit icon  at the top-right of the section to edit your display name, email address, and password. If your JIRA administrator has configured the user directory with external password management, the Change Password link will not be available. 

Changing your avatar

Select  or your current avatar to change the image that appears next to your name in JIRA. If your administrator has enabled Gravatar for user avatars, your Gravatar (i.e. the Gravatar associated with the email address in your user profile) will automatically be set as your user avatar. If Gravatar has been enabled, you will not be able to choose JIRA -specific user avatars and vice versa. using Gravatar.com. If Gravatar has been disabled, you can choose your user avatar from the ones pre-packaged with JIRA  or upload your own.

Choosing your homepage

Your JIRA home page is the JIRA page you are presented with immediately after you log in.

You can configure the following JIRA pages as your JIRA home page:

• The Dashboard
• The Issue Navigator
• The Rapid Board (available if you're using JIRA Software)

1. Click on your profile icon at the top right of the screen.
2. Select the appropriate home page option within the My JIRA Home section:
   
   • Dashboard
   • Issue Navigator
   • Rapid Board (available if you're using JIRA Software)
    Your page will be reloaded the JIRA home page you selected.
3. (Optional) To verify that your JIRA home page has been reset, log out and log back in to JIRA again. You should be taken directly to the JIRA home page you selected in the previous step.

Managing email notifications

In the Preferences section on the Summary page, click the edit icon  at the top-right of the section to open the Updated User Preferences dialog box. You can then manage the following:

• Change the Email Type to change the format (plain text or HTML) in which JIRA sends its outgoing email notifications.
• In My Changes, Choose between making JIRA send you email notifications about issue updates made by either both you and other people (Notify me) or other people only (i.e. Do not notify me).

Managing your user preferences

The global defaults for most of the user preferences below can be set by your JIRA administrator; however, you can override these default settings by changing the following: 

• The Page Size, or number of issues displayed on each Issue Navigator page

• Your preferred language from the drop-down list.

• Your time zone specified in your profile doesn't match the time zone of the computer you are working on, JIRA will ask if you want to update this selected time zone setting. All time fields in JIRA will now be displayed in your preferred time zone.
  
• Choose the default Sharing setting for when you create new filters and dashboards, which can be either shared with all other users (Public) or restricted.
• Choose to enable or disable JIRA's keyboard shortcuts feature.
• Choose between allowing JIRA to make you an autowatcher of any issue that you create or comment on.

Managing service desk preferences

Viewing your OAuth tokens

An OAuth access token is issued by JIRA to give gadgets access to restricted data on an external, OAuth-compliant web application or website (also known as a "consumer"). Check out Allowing OAuth access for more information on when to issue or revoke OAuth access tokens.