User Guide
- Killian Blain (Unlicensed)
- Micky Caritte
In this page :
Group Management
Basics
Group Ambassadors is a group management delegation app. It allows Jira administrators to nominate group ambassadors who are able to locally manage groups within Jira, without being given administrative privileges.
Here are a few definitions and some vocabulary as used in this guide:
Ambassador: an ambassador is a group manager who is not an administrator of Jira.
Nested groups: Nested groups is a feature offered in some user directories in Jira (e.g. the embedded crowd directory) which allows groups to contains user and groups as members. This is useful for permissions inheritance. (Learn more about Nested Groups.)
Indirect member(s): indirect membership of groups happens when nested groups are enabled. An indirect member is someone who is not a direct member of a group but inheriting the membership from a subgroup. For instance, if a group called "IT Department" contains many subgroups, one of which being called "DevOps", all members of DevOps will be indirect members of "IT Department".
Browsing your groups
Group Ambassadors allows you to browse the groups you're member of.
In order to check who are the other members of one of your groups, you can click on your profile and choose the "Manage my groups" option:
You will be redirected to the group management module, from which you will be able to choose one of the groups you're member of using the "View" link:
If you are a group Ambassador, you can browse and manage users in the group. The action offered will therefore be "Manage" instead of "View".
The list of all members will be displayed paginated.
Each page will contain 25 users and you can navigate between pages using the links at the bottom of the page: the arrow will take you to either next or previous page where the numbers will take you directly to the corresponding page number.
If User Groups is enabled, a new group icon will follow every user name. Clicking on that icon will display a window where all groups for this user are displayed to help you building the right profile!
Admins can define policies for group browsing, therefore, there might be groups you can see but not browse. They will be flagged with a lock icon:
Even if you can't browse a group, if you're an Ambassador, you can still add new members!
Browsing Users Groups
Since version 1.8.3, and if Users Group setting is enabled, a new "Group Membership Explorer" button will be available on your group management module.
Using this module will allow you to choose a user:
And then, display all his/her groups! That way, no more need to switch between screens to make the perfect user profile!
Displaying Group Usage
From the group management module you can click on "View usage" for any group you're member of. That page will display how the group is used in project (i.e. associated with Roles) in the instance:
