How to ensure that my new project management project inherits the "company-managed" project type

[Sonya Goldstein]

The default JIRA project management template is a Team-Managed project type.  Our administrator overroad the setting for our prototype project and set it to Company Managed.

If I create a new project management project as a non-JIRA admin, the only choice at initiation is choosing the default template which is again team-managed,  If I then choose to copy settings from the "prototype" project, does it switch the project type over to 'Company-managed'?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Sonya Goldstein 

If you are not a Jira Admin your only choice when creating a new project may be Team Managed.

If you want a project that uses the same configuration as the template project created by your Jira Admins, then open a request with your Jira Admins to have them create a new Company Managed project from the start. They will have the ability to specify during the creation that the new project shares the configuration of the template project.

You cannot copy the settings of a Company Managed project to a Team Managed project. They use different customization/settings architectures. The capabilities of Workflow Customization are not the same between the project types. Company Managed projects can have multiple sub-task issue types while Team Managed projects cannot.

You could try to recreate comparable settings in your TM project, but it would not be the exact same configuration.

[Gor Greyan]

Hi @Sonya Goldstein

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Jira does not support a direct project conversion from a Team-managed to a Company-managed project. You can create a new Company Managed project and bulk move all the existing Jira issues in the Team Managed project to the newly created one.

You can find useful the following article.
https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/migrate-between-team-managed-and-company-managed-projects/

[Sonya Goldstein]

Let me clarify:  

I know that you cannot change the Atlassian default ‘Project Management’ project type which is set to ‘Team-Managed’.  Per support documentation, you can create a Project that with the help of admin level user, can be created with a project type = company managed.  This can be named as ‘<company> Project Management_default’.   When anyone who is not an admin then wants to create company managed projects, they would choose the Atlassian Project Management template (which is still team- managed) but then choose to Copy settings from another project which would be the company managed ‘template’.  I think support mislead us.  I think that only admins can even select a company managed template and that the copy settings from another project option is not even available if the template that you are initially creating from is not a company managed template.  So……this leaves us with having to ask the admin to help create anytime anyone wants to create a new project. 

Surely Atlassian has SOMETHING out there to address that we want to establish company managed templates for project management that anyone can select.