How do I assign users (in bulk) to a group.

Question

Hi, I am trying to add users to a particular group, but I want to do this in a bulk. I have 300 users and its painful to give users permission to a group one by one. Is there a way I can do a bulk edit and assign all the users to a particular group.

I am using the new User Management page to do it, but I do not see any option of bulk assignment.

Please advise.

Regards,

Vikas

Chris Rondeau · Answer

hmm that does make it more difficult. There is no existing group you can leverage user names from?

Using REST you could get users one letter at a time..

https://servername/rest/api/2/user/search?username=a

But you could probably get all the users in the "old" way, by the time compiled all the names this way.

Vikas Chhatwal · Answer

Ours is a hosted version of JIRA and so I dont have access to the Database.

Chris Rondeau · Answer

Without a list of users I cannot think of a convienient method.

Importing Users requires a list, there was a script.. but again that requires a list.

Maybe make a list of users..  https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/How+to+Export+Users+to+CSV+from+JIRA

The command line interface is supposed to allow you to do this as well, but I have never used it.

https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/JCLI/JIRA+Command+Line+Interface