I need this desperately! I don't think all users need to see time tracking.

Today another user asked for this feature. They want to use JIRA but want different teams to see different fields.
Just for you to know.

@Atlassian
No matter what we use JIRA for, there are almost always two parties involved. Service provider and service consumer (or customer). When there is more than one party, there will always be some information that needs to be hid from customer. Service Desk is a solution that solves only a small portion of this problem. The need to hide some fields from some users in the conventional JIRA interface is critical.

The initial idea of viewports was a promising one yet you decided not to implement it. Believe me guys, Service Desk can not meet those needs. You say it is very hard to implement this feature since it would require large portions of JIRA to be rewritten. You know what: You should start immediately!!!

JIRA is moving to an upper league these days. We, as a partner, are positioning JIRA for all kinds of needs: Request management, project & portfolio management, service desk, audits, etc... you name it. Believe me when I say this feature is needed desparately. This is more important than Service Desk or Portfolio. There is no version of future that JIRA can go on without this feature forever. Sooner or later you will have to implement this. The sooner it is done the less damage. (We are currently implementing a very large scale Atlassian project and we suffered a lot because of this. I can not put enough emphasis on how important this is.)

Hello guys,

The mentioned Hide Time Tracking plugin is now a mature product and time tracking information is not visible in JIRA UI (for users without 'work on issues' permission).
In case of any problems you can raise an issue at https://gebsun.atlassian.net/browse/HTT

Regards,
Gebsun

@Alexander: Many thanks for the info. It's indeed possible that this plugin is still early stage and that it does not yet cover all aspects.
In fact, this type of plugin was expected to be developed by Atlassian (Jira) in order to provide a solution for "hiding time tracking fields". It's a pity this has to be performed by a third party.

@Jean-Jacques I would advise you against using this new plugin at all in its current state. It just seems to work, but actually everything is still visible in change history, activity streams etc etc.

@Ronald, we're indeed in the same boat and facing exactly the same situation.
Let's hope that Atlassian (Jira) will surprise us by quickly enabling this long awaited plugin. Just want to stay positive after all.

We're in the same boat. There's a lot of things we like about Jira and we haven't found a replacement.
The need to hide time tracking doesn't affect all our projects so for the moment we're putting up with the missing functionality.

@Ronald Vallenduuk...thanks for your reply.
You indeed pointed out the different options and we looked/tried all of them.
Leaving Jira behind is indeed an option, all the others are not. But I must also say, on a positive note, we've a lot of satisfaction with other Jira features and Jira in general with Confluence, Bit Bucket and so on. But this "hide time tracking fields" is indeed the cause of lots of frustration on our side. Did you find another solution?

@Jean-Jacques Courtens: Thank you. I will check out the plugin. Hope it will fit our needs.