Global settings for administrators

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Global settings is the Jira administrator’s view of Advanced Filters & Gadgets across the whole installation: who’s allowed to do what, tidying up in bulk, seeing where filters are actually used, and backing everything up.

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Most sites need this page once. Set your access policies after installing and you can largely leave it alone. The other panels are there for when you need them.

Getting there #

Either route lands in the same place:

Jira Settings → Apps → Advanced Filters
Global settings, under Administration in the app’s own left rail

The four panels #

Panel	What it’s for
Access policies	Who can create, manage, bulk-edit and export advanced filters (see Access policies)
Bulk operations	Archive, reactivate, delete or reassign several filters at once (see Bulk operations)
Usage export	A CSV of where advanced filters are actually being used (see Usage export)
App data	Back up, restore, or permanently delete everything the app stores (see Back up, restore and delete app data)

Keeping an eye on capacity #

Beside the title you’ll see how full the installation is: N / 7,500 filters, split into active and archived. If the count can’t be read, the line says “Filters: unavailable” rather than a zero, and a notice at the top of the open panel says why, with Try again.

Archived filters still count toward the limit. Archiving tidies the list; it doesn’t free a slot. Only deleting does. The line turns into a warning as you approach the cap, so you’ll get some notice.

The App data panel with its backup section, its restore section, and the collapsed delete-all disclosure. — App data: back up, restore, and the delete-all option kept safely collapsed.

Who can open it #

Global settings is for Jira site and organization administrators. An advanced filter’s own administrators can’t reach it. That list governs one filter, not the installation.

People you’ve delegated an export grant to get a narrower Exports page instead, with just what they need. See Access policies.

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If a request to delete all app data is in progress, a banner appears across every panel and the controls that would conflict with it are disabled, with the reason shown. Ordinary use of the app elsewhere on the site carries on as normal. See Back up, restore and delete app data.