What is an Application Owner?

An application owner is a person responsible for an application. Not all applications need an owner, but it might useful to have one. The owner of an application could be, for instance, the person in charge of approving or denying a provisioning request.

Enough talk, show me how to set it up!

When you open the Applications' page, by clicking Apps > Multiplier in the Jira Nav Bar, you will find the list of all the applications we have discovered from your Identity Providers, along with any custom applications you might have created.

In this example, we can see there are some applications connected to Okta, and some custom applications. What follows is identical for both idP sourced and custom applications.

Right there on the table, the last column is titled Owner. Thanks to the magic of inline components, you can edit the owner by clicking on the unassigned placeholder, or change a currently selected owner. The change will be saved upon selection, so choose wisely! (well, you can always change it back, of course).

Or, you can click on the name of an application to display it's profile. Lets open the mysterious "Yet another custom application" to see what it looks like.

As you probably already noticed, on the right of the profile screen, there is a selector to specify the owner of the application. At the moment, you can only specify a single owner per application.

Once again, application will be saved upon selection of the new owner.

An application Owner can be used as a default approver for applications, or as a approver for an application's request Access Type.