User Automatically Become an Agent
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Problem
- While the user is not being assigned as an Agent from Service Management Menu > Manage Agent, the user is automatically assigned as an Agent for a specific Project.
- From the Manage Agents the user is unable to be remove as an Agent.
Diagnosis
Take note of the Project Permission Scheme for the Roles, Groups and User that have the permissions below:
- Browse Project
- Edit Issue
Cause
Due to the user have the permission of both permission above, the user would be considered as an Agent.
Workaround
- Go to the Affected Project Permission Scheme on Jira Side.
- Remove the Group, Roles or User that is related to the User on the Permission Scheme.
- Else, if it is set to only Roles, remove the user from that Roles via Project Administration Scheme > Roles
- Check on the Manage Agents page to see if the User is the agent of that project.
Last modified on Nov 23, 2020
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