How can I programmatically create a new jira user, but set it to inactive by default?

Question

Hi.

In one of my projects the client would like the ability to, when creating a new Jira user, to set them as inactive by default, and I'd like to know if that is possible and how.

Checking UserService and ApplicationUser, I can see that I can check if a user is active, but not actually manipulate the user's activity status.

Please advise, thank you!

Kristīne Graudiņa · Answer

It's the latter. Client has their internal employee system, where, when a new employee is added, they want the synchronizer plugin to automatically create a new Jira user. Which is currently implemented and works.

They just want to make it now that, when that new user is created, it is set to inactive.

User creation is handled through a service class that makes use of UserManager and UserService,

I can see that you can use method withNoApplicationAccess() to deny application access on user creation, but that wouldn't necessarily make the user inactive, right?

I suppose in that case implementing an update user API call is the most straightforward way?

I was hoping for something roundabout.

Jim Knepley - ReleaseTEAM · Answer

If you're creating a new user via the API, you can set them as active, or not, when the record is created.

If you're talking about disabling users that are created via any mechanism (like a directory sync), what might be easiest is to create the user as usual, but don't give them application access by default.

Sergei Troshin_usua2u · Answer

Here some extended code by Adaptavist:

final Long directoryId = 1

Users.create('bob', 'bob@mail.com', 'Mr Bob') {
    setDirectoryId(directoryId)
    setPassword('secret')
    withNoApplicationAccess()
}.deactivate()