This is a JIRA Administrator guide to enable Time Tracking and configure the necessary fields. Please note, these settings and configurations are only available to JIRA administrator or users with administrator privileges and required to be enabled. Jira's time tracking feature enables users to record the time they spend working on issues.
Note: Capacity Tracker uses Jira’s 'Remaining Estimate' time tracking field to calculate the amount of remaining work for the users.
Configure time tracking for Jira Cloud
Configure time tracking permissions
To track their time, you must grant users the Work On Issues permission in their project. To verify your project permissions for time tracking:
Select
> Issues.
Click Permission schemes.
Next to the permission scheme you want to configure, click Permissions.
In the Time tracking permissions section, go to the Work On Issues permission and click Edit.
Select the users, groups or project roles that need to log work on issues.
Click Grant.
Enable or disable time tracking in projects
Time tracking is always enabled in Jira Cloud projects. You can control whether the feature is used in your projects by:
Showing or hiding the Time tracking field in your classic projects' field configurations. Learn more about field configurations.
Adding or removing the Time tracking field on your next-gen projects' issue types. Learn how to customize an issue’s fields in next-gen projects.