When you set up your service project, you add users to the project so that your team can start receiving and resolving requests. Your service project has the following users:

• Project administrators set up the service project and users.
• Agents work on customer requests and add customers to the project.
• Customers send requests to your service project.
• Groups are the Jira groups added to your service project. Jira groups are collection of users managed by your Jira admin. Learn more about managing Jira groups
• Organizations are groups of customers that are shared across projects.

By default, you need different permissions to manage different types of users in the project:

• Jira administrators can manage users and licenses across multiple projects.
• Project administrators can add agents from other projects and also manage customers and organizations. They can also add groups (managed by Jira admins) to their service project and assign them project roles.
• Agents can manage customers and organizations.

On this page:

Add agents to a project

By default, project administrators can add agents from other projects to the project. Jira administrators can add anyone to the project.

To add agents:

1. From your service project, click Add team in the sidebar.
2. The agents are emailed a link to the service project and are added to the Service Desk Team project role.

View roles of team members

You must be a project administrator to view the roles of team members.

To view the roles of each team member:

1. From your service project, select Project settings > Users and roles.
2. Select the Roles dropdown, or search for the team member directly.

When a Jira administrator adds a new agent to the project, the agent is also assigned a Jira Service Management license and added to the service-desk-users license group.

To view what license or group a user belongs to:

1. Go to Jira administration > User management.
2. Search for and select a user to view their profile.

If your agents need to collaborate with Jira Core or Jira Software users to resolve an issue, you can grant the Jira users limited access to your service project. Learn more at Involve Jira Software and Jira Core users.

Remove agents from a project

You must be a project administrator to remove an agent from a project.

To remove an agent from a project:

1. From your service project, select Project settings > Users and roles.
2. Hover over the user or group you'd like to remove from the Service Desk Team project role, then click the trash can icon to the right.

Unlicense agents

Jira administrators can remove an agent's license.

To unlicense an agent:

1. Go to Jira administration > User management.
2. Select the user.
3. Under the Actions column, choose Edit user groups, then remove them from the Jira-service-desk-users group.

What is a customer?

Customers are people who can send requests to your service project via the portal or email. How people become customers depends on your project's customer permissions. To see your customers, go to Customers from your service project.

Customers are automatically added to the list if your project is open to users with Jira accounts, or allows customers to create their own accounts. Customers who do not have Jira accounts are added to the Service Desk Customers project role in Project settings > Users and roles. Customers are also granted restricted access to the Customer portal only (not Jira).

For more information about how people become customers, see Managing access to your service project.

Add a customer

Both agents and project administrators can add customers to projects.

To add customers:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Click Add customers to add customers to your projects.

Use Jira groups in your service projects

Project admins can add Jira groups to their service projects and assign roles to these groups. An efficient way to bulk add all the members of a group as customers of your service project is to add them from the Customers page. Learn how to manage project role memberships

Agents and project admins can share requests with Jira groups added as customers in the Issue view. You can extend this sharing capability to help-seekers, allowing them to easily share requests with Jira groups they’re part of from the customer portal. Learn how to allow customers to share requests with groups 

Project admins can also create automation rules to add groups to requests and share requests with the appropriate groups by default.

Group members are notified when they’re added to requests based on how notifications are set up, and they can search for requests on the My requests page. Learn how to manage service project notifications 

Add a group

You must be a project administrator to add a Jira group to the project.

To add a group as customers:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select Add.
3. Navigate to the Groups tab and add an existing group.

You can find the groups you’ve added in the Customers list. 

Remove a group

When you remove a group from a project, its members lose access to the project and can’t raise requests unless they have the Service Desk Customers project role, have access through another organization or group, or the project allows anyone to raise a request without logging in. 

You must be a project administrator to remove a group from a project.

To remove groups from a project:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select a group in the Customers list.
3. Select the Remove icon.

You can also remove groups from Project settings > Users and roles.

Remove customers from a project

You must be a project administrator to remove customers from a project.

To remove a customer from a project:

1. From your service project, select Project settings > Users and roles.
2. Hover over the customer you would like to remove from the Service Desk Customers project role, then click the trash can icon to the right.

If the customers have Jira accounts or created their own accounts, then a Jira administrator needs to deactivate them.

To deactivate a user:

1. Go to Jira administration > User management.
2. Search for and select the user you want to deactivate.
3. Under the Actions column, select Edit.
4. Uncheck the box beside Active to deactivate the user.

What is an organization?

Organizations are groups of customers that can be used in multiple projects. When you add an organization to a project, its members can raise requests in the project and share them with the organization. They're also notified about the organization's requests and can view and search them on the My Requests page in the portal. Learn more about how customers share requests with organizations.

By default, you need the Service Desk Team role for a project to manage organizations in it. However, a Jira admin can restrict organization management to Jira admins by turning off the Organization management setting:

1. Go to Jira administration > Applications.
2. Under Jira Service Management, select Configuration.
3. Look for the Organization management heading.
4. Organizations are managed from a project's Customers list.

Add organizations

Organizations are groups of customers that can be used in multiple projects.

You must be a project administrator to add organizations to the project.

To add an organization:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select Add organizations.
3. Add a new organization, or add an existing organization.

The organizations that you add display on the Customers list.

Add customers to an organization

Rather than add customers individually, you can group customers into organizations—which can be part of multiple projects. Customers can then raise requests in all service projects they have access to.

You must be a project administrator to add customers to an organization.

To add customers to an organization:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select the organization you want to add customers to.
3. Click Add customer.

If the customers are new to the Jira site they are given restricted access to the Customer portal only (not Jira). Also, customers are not added to the Service Desk Customers project role, because the organization can be used in multiple projects. However, they can still raise requests in all projects that use the organization.

Remove customers from an organization

Customers removed from organizations lose access to projects that use the organization, unless they have access through another organization, have the Service Desk Customers project role, or the project allows anyone to raise a request without logging in.

You must be a project administrator to remove customers from an organization.

To remove customers from an organization:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select an organization in the Customers list.
3. Find the customer you want to remove, and then click X to the right.

Remove an organization from a project

When you remove an organization from a project, its members lose access to the project unless they have the Service Desk Customers project role, have access through another organization, or the project allows anyone to raise a request without logging in.

You must be a project administrator to remove an organization from a project.

To remove organizations from a project:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select an organization in the Customers list.
3. Click Remove from project.

Delete an organization from a site

Deleting an organization does not delete the customers who are in it. The customers still exist on the Jira site and have access to any projects for which they have the Service Desk Customers role or access via another organization.

You must be a Jira admin to delete an organization from a Jira site.

To delete an organization from a site:

1. From your service project, go to Customers.
2. Select an organization in the Customers list.
3. Select Remove from project > Delete organization.

Involve Jira Software or Jira Core users

You can give users with Jira Software or Jira Core licenses permission to view and comment on service project issues without a Jira Service Management license, only if Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Service Management are licensed on the same Jira instance.

To involve Jira application users:

1. From your service project, select Project settings > Users and roles.
2. Add users to the Service Desk Team role.

These users can:

• View issues, comments, and attachments 
• Add and delete their own attachments and internal comments 
• Watch and vote for issues 

These users can't:

• Leave comments for customers 
• View queues, the customer list, or reports 
• Transition service project issues 
• Log work on a service project issue 
• Be assigned to a service project issue 

Learn more about collaborating with Jira Software or Jira Core users.

Example of collaboration between Jira Service Management and Jira Software

1. Martin, an IT service desk team agent, links an incident ticket in a service project to an underlying network problem ticket in a Jira Software project.
2. Andrew, a Jira Software developer on the network operations team, assigns this network issue to himself and starts working on it.
3. After fixing the problem, Andrew opens the linked service incident ticket and leaves an internal comment asking Martin to try the network connection again.
4. After receiving the internal comment, Martin verifies the network connection and tells the customer that the problem is resolved.

Learn more about managing users

Check out the following documentation to learn more about managing users and permissions: