Page Comparison

Administrator user role

Jira admins

C-level managers

Has full access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings including the Dashboard.

Can create/edit and approve custom events like Placeholders or Vacations.  This user may delete other users and change the permissions of other users.

Only a user with an Administrator role may access Setup Wizard or perform a refresh of users, issues, boards, filters or projects from JIRA.

Manager user role

Global managers (have access to all teams)

Department leads

Project Managers

Team leaders

User with this role has full access to the Dashboard and can manage teams.

He/she can edit members of existing teams and create new teams.

Can modify users' positions and skills.

Full access to Planning, Tracking and Reporting functionality

Can create/edit and approve custom events like Placeholders or Vacations.

All actions performed by ‘Employee’-roles.

Power Employee user role

Senior level employees

Team leads

People who mentor other employees

Can schedule tasks for himself/herself and other team members

Can change statuses of the task

Log work to Jira tasks

Can see schedule for all existing teams on the Dashboard

No Access to Timesheets or reports of other users

User with this role can access the Dashboard, view JIRA tickets and perform a drag'n'drop, move or resize of JIRA tickets.

Can create/edit custom events.

Employee user role

Default role for all employees

All non-manager roles that are only responsible for their tasks

Can only see his/her own timeline and timeline of users that in the same team as this user

Can schedule tasks for himself/herself

Log work to Jira tasks

User with this role has an access to the schedule of the teams he/she belongs to. This user can see just the issues that were assigned to him/her and their teammates.

Can create/edit custom events for teams he/she belongs to.

Limited Employee user role (default for newly added users)

For all organisations that don’t allow employees to see tasks/issues/events of other employees

Only access to personal timeline

Can create new task for himself/herself

Can log time to Jira tasks

User with this role can see his/her own timeline schedule only. This user will see just the issues that were assigned to him/her.

Can create/edit custom events on his/her timeline only.

Semi Read-Only user role

This role can be applied in addition to Power Employee or Employee Roles.

Has the same access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings as the original role.

Users with this role have full access to their own timeline and  read-only access to the timeline of other users.

If a user has just this role then he/she will have the same access as 'Employee' but in a semi read-only mode.

Read-only user role:

This role can be applied in addition to any other role.

Has the same access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings as the original role.

Users with this role will have read-only access to the dashboard.

If a user has just this role then he/she will have the same access as 'Limited Employee' but in a read-only mode.