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rename of a group not possible

T Becherer

Hello,

a rename of a group is not working.

Groups are not working with an ID but only key is the groupname ...
And a group-name can change!

This is in daily use of the tool a problem it a company is for example changing department-names or something like that.

It seems to be a known problem and cause many problems for users.

For example they loose access-rights after a renaming of a group.

Why is this that way? and why is this still not solved?

best regards

Torsten

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Valeriia_Havrylenko_SaaSJet

Hi @T Becherer
Welcome to the community!

You can do it via SQL as it cannot be accomplished within Confluence.

First, backup your SQL database. Then run this simple modification to the cwd_group.

Just modify the group_name field to whatever you would like the group named

The SQL statement to run is as follows:

Update cwd_group set group_name='<new_group_name>', lower_group_name='<new_group_name>' where lower_group_name='<old_group_name>';

Be aware that this only renames the group itself.

Membership does not get transferd this way. The group will be empty.

Hope this helps!

Valeriia_Havrylenko_SaaSJet

@T Becherer Please accept my answer if you find it useful
Thanks!

T Becherer

but without transfering the membership this not really helps

what is the plan from Atlassian to solve this known problem?

Aron Gombas _Midori_

It was a long-time limitation, but I thought Atlassian fix this last year... Have you seen this article?

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Atlassian-Access-articles/Org-admins-can-now-rename-groups-in-cloud/ba-p/2276321

T Becherer

as we sync the groups via Azure, Problem is, that this is still not solved:

Groups that are synced via an IdP (SCIM) cannot be renamed, yet.

seems that the key for groups is the name of a group and that can change, of course.
Nearly all other tools can handle group-renames, except Atlassian

Hector Menchaca

@T Becherer ,

Groups that have already been synced from your IdP cannot be renamed yet, we have a Feature Request for that:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ACCESS-800

I recommend you to vote and comment on there.

T Becherer

feature request is older than 4 years ...
how long last development-cycles of Atlassian in such a context?

This problem cause many problems for users and complaints landing by IT admins

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