Overview

The Permissions administration screen looks like as follows:

If no setting is applied, the default behavior is the following:

• the Request Approvals button shows up for any user having browsing permission on the issue
• the Request Approvals button shows up on any issue found in the source status requiring approvals
• the Issue Approval button shows up for JIRA System Administrators, project lead, users in the group jira-administrators and in the project role administrator.
  
• the Issue Approval button shows up on any issue of any Project

The screenshot below shows the Request Approvals and the Issue Approval buttons on the view of an issue.

Manage restrictions on the capability to notify an Approval Request via email

Navigate the Approval Request tab on the Permission Administration screen in order to:c

• enable the Request Approvals button on the issues belonging to the selected projects exclusively
  

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  The available options include: All. It allows to enable the Request Approvals button on all projects (Default) Only Selected Projects. It allows to enable the Request Approvals button on the selected projects exclusively. Do not select any project to avoid displaying the button on any project.

  When choosing to enable the Request Approvals button on the selected projects exclusively, just click Add Project to append the selected project to the list of Selected Projects.

• restrict permissions to display the Request Approvals button by project and issue type.
  
  The Project select list will include all projects enabled to display the Request Approvals button.
  Click Add Permissions to grant permissions to display the Request Approvals button  to  Users, Groups, Project Rules, Report,Assignee and Project lead.
  

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Manage restrictions on the capability to setup Approvals for a single issue

Navigate the Define Custom Approval Rules for single issue tab on the Permission Administration screen in order to:

• enable the Issue Approval button on the issues belonging to the selected projects exclusively

When choosing to enable the Issue Approval button on the selected projects exclusively, just click Add Project to append the selected project to the list of Selected Projects.

When choosing to enable the Issue Approval button on the selected projects exclusively, just click Add Project to append the selected project to the list of Selected Projects.

• restrict permissions to display the Issue Approval button by project and issue type.

The Project select list will include all projects enabled to display the Issue Approval button.
Click Add Permissions to grant permissions to display the Issue Approval button  to  Users, Groups, Project Rules, Report,Assignee and Project lead.