Effects of anonymous issue creation in the JIRA adapter

When you create issues as an anonymous user in JIRA, you are not prompted to log in to your Rational® account when you create or modify links.

The create and selection dialogs in the JIRA adapter use the credentials that are established with the JIRA product's web session. That is, the adapter creation dialog uses the user identity with which you logged in to JIRA. In JIRA, a JIRA product administrator can give anonymous users the privilege to create JIRA issues. Under these circumstances, when users start a delegated dialog from the adapter interface, they are not prompted to log in with Rational credentials and this dialog action proceeds with the anonymous users's access. This result can be confusing because you might assume that you are already logged in with your user account instead of an anonymous account on JIRA, but that is not the case. The consequence is that the user starts a delegated creation dialog without having the opportunity to log in as themselves first.

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