How to check my permissions in JIRA?

Question

In order to edit version numbers for a project in JIRA, I need 'project admin' permission.

How can I check if I have this permission? Can I get a list of my project permissions?

(I can see the list of groups I belong to on my user profile, but not the permissions associated with any group)

EDIT: According to the documentation it is the permission "Administer Projects" needed to edit project versions.

Answer 1

There are several ways to check if someone has a certain permissions. The easiest one is to use the JIRA admin helper functionality available within JIRA as of version 6 (see Troubleshooting permissions with the JIRA admin helper), and as a freely available add-on from Atlassian Labs for JIRA 5.0 - 5.2.11.

Within JIRA 6 (or JIRA 5 after installing the add-on), go to the JIRA administration, and find the admin helper. It's pretty self explanatory. It lets you check whether you can do certain operations on a project, and tells you why, or why not.