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Unable to edit recurring automation

Christa Meck_7blpl7

Jira Cloud, Company Managed Project.

I am a project admin, site admin and org admin.

I created a recurring automation in Jira to clone a work item every week. But I have a few of these now and I wanted to name them in a more sane fashion so I don't have to guess which one is which. But the darn thing is read only and I don't seem to have a way on any screen to edit it. I've tried on the Project Settings and from Global Automation settings. Always unable to edit.

Screenshot 2025-10-31 105758.png

What am I missing?

- Christa

Accepted answers

Harpreet_p8d5zl

Hello @Christa Meck ,

To the best of my knowledge , we cannot edit this automation rule because it is a Recurring automation rule and they are always created as Read Only.

Once done, it will create a recurring Automation rule for the respective Jira work item. You can find this under Project settings>>Automation.

You will find that it has a “Recurring” label as well as a “Read Only” label. This means that this rule cannot be edited once created. It cannot be edited by the actor or owner of the rule. The only way to stop a recurring Jira work item is to delete its recurring Automation rule.

Please refer to the following documentation: Schedule work items to recur using automations | Cloud automation Cloud | Atlassian Support

Regards
Harpreet Walia

All comments

Rudy Holtkamp

Hi @Christa Meck ,

Seems very strange. You might want to clone it and turn this one off. If you can't clone or disable it, I would suggest you contact Atlassian support.

Cheers,

Rudy

John Funk

Hi Christa,

Copy the rule and see if you can update the new copy.

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Christa Meck

First thing: based on the image you posted, your rule is selected as Private for edits. I recommend never doing that. There is too much risk of someone getting "hit by the lottery bus", and creating a maintenance nightmare for future admins. To limit access, perhaps set it to All Admins or to Specific Admins, with always at least two people assigned.

Next, do you have multiple user accounts? For example, one for Org Admin and Product Admin, but different from your day-to-day account? If so, are you logged into the lower-permission one? If not, have you tried:

logging out of Jira,
clearing your browser cache,
closing all browsers, and
starting one browser to log in and re-try.

Next, this could be a rule "glitch", as suggested by Rudy and John. The steps to disable this one, copy it, edit the copy, and then delete the original should work for that case.

Finally as a comment: while comparing what you showed to my site, I was confused for a bit as you have a space named "Jira Administration"...and thus this is a space-scoped. That may confuse other peer admins as they may think this is a global rule based on the breadcrumbs and name...but it is not.

Kind regards,
Bill

Trudy P Claspill

Hello @Christa Meck

You should be able to edit a Private rule when you are the owner of the rule. Can you confirm that you are logged in to Jira as the same identity/account that is shown as the rule Owner?

If so, you might want to reach out to Atlassian support for additional investigation.

As a work around, try changing the Who can edit this rule? option in the Rule Details from Private to Specific Admins or All Admins.

Harpreet_p8d5zl

Hello @Christa Meck ,

To the best of my knowledge , we cannot edit this automation rule because it is a Recurring automation rule and they are always created as Read Only.

Once done, it will create a recurring Automation rule for the respective Jira work item. You can find this under Project settings>>Automation.

Please refer to the following documentation: Schedule work items to recur using automations | Cloud automation Cloud | Atlassian Support

Regards
Harpreet Walia

Bill Sheboy

Hi @Harpreet

Thanks for that information about the built-in Recurring rules automation!

As what you describe is not noted on that documentation page, please enter this as a documentation defect so the page can be updated. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Bill

Christa Meck_7blpl7

Wow. That's ... Not intuitive at all.

Well, I guess I'll be creating these automations and then making them a second time so they can be edited. My opinion is that a READ-ONLY can't even be edited by Site/Org admin rule isn't long-term managabale. Thanks for the double work Atlassian.

- Christa

Cengiz Akyildiz_qmgld1

You cannot even copy or export (as single rule) those read-only recurring. But you can export it using global automation page along with all other rules. After tweaking json file, then you may import it back..

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