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How can i easily change projectlead (bulk change) in jira cloud?

Bruno Staub

How can i easily change projectlead (bulk change) in jira cloud?
Can i use an automation rule for doing this or do i need a plugin?

thanks for feedback.

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Automation is for changing issues, not project settings. Also, there's no bulk change for project lead, as there's only one lead per project.

I don't remember seeing any app that would allow you to change the lead for multiple projects in one go, I'd be looking to scriptrunner to write some one-off code for it.

Darryl Lee

Automation can't do it.

As usual Bob Swift's excellent ACLI (Atlassian Command Line Interface) can.

You would use updateProject with --lead parameter. To change in Bulk, you could combine that with runFromProjectList

It would be something like:

acli --action runFromProjectList --regex "ZJIRACLIPROJECTS.*" \
--common "-a updateProject \
--project \"@project@\" --lead \"newlead@yourcompany.com\" " --continue

Or if you have a list of projects in a CSV where you need to bulk-change the lead, you could do something like this:

acli --action runFromCSV --file newleads.csv --common "-a updateProject \
--project \"@project@\" --lead \"@lead@\" " \
--options setReplacementVariables --continue

This assumes a newleads.csv file that looks like this:

project,lead
FOO,foolead@yourcompany.com
BAR,barlead@yourcompany.com

All comments

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Automation is for changing issues, not project settings. Also, there's no bulk change for project lead, as there's only one lead per project.

I don't remember seeing any app that would allow you to change the lead for multiple projects in one go, I'd be looking to scriptrunner to write some one-off code for it.

Mykenna Cepek

I suspect the Jira API could do it, but that's still writing some code (outside of Jira Automation).

Darryl Lee

Automation can't do it.

As usual Bob Swift's excellent ACLI (Atlassian Command Line Interface) can.

You would use updateProject with --lead parameter. To change in Bulk, you could combine that with runFromProjectList

It would be something like:

acli --action runFromProjectList --regex "ZJIRACLIPROJECTS.*" \
--common "-a updateProject \
--project \"@project@\" --lead \"newlead@yourcompany.com\" " --continue

Or if you have a list of projects in a CSV where you need to bulk-change the lead, you could do something like this:

acli --action runFromCSV --file newleads.csv --common "-a updateProject \
--project \"@project@\" --lead \"@lead@\" " \
--options setReplacementVariables --continue

This assumes a newleads.csv file that looks like this:

project,lead
FOO,foolead@yourcompany.com
BAR,barlead@yourcompany.com

Prince Nyeche - ELFAPP

There's a free app I made on marketplace that does just that using CSV.

Anna Konieczna

I assume that you've resolved your issue. But maybe someone else will have similar issue. I can recommend using add-ons called Projectrak - Project Tracking for Jira.

If you have any question how to do using that, please don't hesitate to contact me

Huwen Arnone [Deiser/Devoteam]

Thank you very much for the recommendation, @Anna Konieczna; however, the bulk change feature is only available for the Data Center/Server version at the moment.

If @Bruno Staub, you're more curious about our app in its cloud version, you can check it here.

Thanks!

Anna Konieczna

@Huwen Arnone _Deiser_Devoteam_ oh ok. I was thinking that it also works for jira cloud. I'm using server and it works perfect for me

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