Should be a basic feature.
Really need this, please consider implementing it!

Another request for nested groups in Atlassian cloud. 

We really need this

I hope our votes/comments make you reconsider the decision regarding this feature.

Count me as another puzzled person as to why you won't do this.

The whole architecture for how groups are managed in the cloud doesn't seem sustainable for large organizations as there is no way for anyone but an ORG ADMIN to make group changes. And now you can't even leverage nested groups. Are you trying to make user management a nightmare?

It is a very much needed and basic functionality. Please reconsider and implement it.

@kdight Any update on this? You said "(...) we will look at easier ways to provide bulk group management via Atlassian Access." but then that was the last we heard about it. An update would be welcome. Thanks.

I echo what Romeo wrote above.. this is a helpful feature that makes user management much easier (from my standpoint).. any chance we can change the outlook on this functionality?

It is quite a disappointment to find the request I was looking with the resolution already filled in.

Resolution: Won't Do

Is there any chance this will be revisited in the near future? Or do we need to create a new request for it?

Again - another organisation struggling to have sustainable governance on a key product because some basic features are unavailable.

This was closed as "Won't do" nearly four years ago without a satisfactory explanation, considering that it's an option in the datacenter version.  I think it's time for someone at Atlassian to revisit this issue.

Please add this!

Need this!  Yet another item related to user/group management that was ignored or forgotten about.  

A true deal breaker. Stunned that this isn't a highly prioritized feature.

Access management is a cumbersome process in Atlassian products. I am very surprised that still there is no resolution on this issue. The administration panel is lacking so many other basic features too. Very frustrating.

Please enable Nested Groups

It will be good to have a nested group to manage access effectively. Please consider this feature in future enhancements. 

This is needed in order to reduce user management overhead and error. It is quite error-prone to manually add new users to multiple groups instead of adding them to single group that represents their role and have them automatically in other needed groups.

We wont be building nested groups, we want to keep our group structure flat. But we will look at easier ways to provide bulk group management via Atlassian Access.

I was reading the same blogpost : 

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/share-jira-external-partners

How can i expose our cloud instance to external partners ?

Any updates on this?

That's bad. Why has it been pending from so long?

Inexcusable that this is not part of basic functionality.  Rally is a much better featured agile workflow management tool.

I was looking to implement this:

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/share-jira-external-partners

Too bad nested groups aren't available in the cloud version.  Seems like a basic feature that should be available.

It's nearly a year now since this was last looked at?

Has there been any feedback from Atlassian on why this is not enabled?  The functionality for organizations with many teams is pretty important.  The loss of efficiency of having to manually update groups and spaces when nested groups would allow for less direct interaction is significant.

This is a basic feature that has been there in multi-user systems for decades. Right now it is a real pain juggling multiple groups with redundant user specifications rather than grouping them hierarchically. Atlassian wake up from the stone age and pl. enable!

this is kinda crazy. How is this not a feature. I have to have the same users in different groups or, change the permission scheme every time there is  a change in users. 

Please add this feature.  Attempting to manage security via "flat" groups is terribly inefficient; tedius; and generates an inordinate amount of maintenance! 

Thanks

We would really need this feature. Can we expect it anytime soon?

+1. Right now we have separate groups for each of the new JIRA products to control licencing, and being able to sum them all into an "everyone who has access to JIRA" group would be extremely useful.

Would be a great addition to the access controls of the system!

We really need this feature. We have separate private customer access levels and this is painful to have to enter the same individual names into multiple groups. Please let us know when we can expect the ability for nested groups.

@Jon Kern
Yeah, there are issues with thousands of votes that aren't being worked on or that have been verified as issues, and then dropped off the roadmap for OnDemand/Cloud... I would not hold my breath on this one.

If this is verified, how soon before it is deployed (to On Demand)? Oh, DUH. Verified just means the request has been verified as legit. It does not mean the implementation has been verified on the QA server. Geesh.

Much older request. I think this is not in the strategy of Atlassian, but should.

This feature is clearly a must have !

The ability to nest groups is a basic feature of any group based user permission hierarchy. My organization requires this to properly establish user permissions.

Please, this action has to be done, because my team needs to classify the groups and divide their members into subgroups.

This is a big lack of functionality for our instance.
Also , it is not mentioned in the Atlassian OnDemand Restrictions page.
Is it possible to define a fix version for this improovement?