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How do I change the Owner of an Agile Board?

SeanM

John Doe is the owner of Agile Board ABC. John has left the company so I need to change the owner of his boards to someone else. How do I do that.

When I go to the configuration of a board at (https://mycompany.jira.com/secure/RapidView.jspa?rapidView=92) I see John listed as the owner, an no way of changing that. I've seen other postings that suggest there would be a little pencil icon next to the Owner field (as there is next to the Administrators field) that I could click to make the change, but there isn't any pencil icon.

I have full administrator rights to Jira. How do I change the person listed as owner of a board?

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khanh nguyen_nbl2nb

You need to hover over the Administrators field to show the 'little pencil' then click the pencil.

SeanM

Thank you, but that doesn't solve the problem I'm asking about. I know there is an edit icon next to the Administrators field. (I mentioned it myself in the question I asked.) I don't want to change the Administrators, I want to change the <b>Owner</b>. Is there a way to do <b>that</b>?

Ramesh Kagitha

You need to change the owner of the filter which is been used by the agile board. So the solution is to edit the filter that is being used then the owner of the board also gets changed.

David Skreiner2

OK ... I took longer than I had hoped to find this solution ... here's what to do for each board where the owner has left the company.

Agile -> Manage Boards -> All Boards -> find the board
Click on the three dots next to it, choose "Configure".
On the "Configure (Board)" page, note the exact name of the "Saved Filter".
type gg, then shared. JIRA should offer "Shared Filters".
find the filter whose name you noted in step 3
Click the cog wheel to the right and choose "Change owner".
Set the new owner for the shared filter. This will automatically also change the ownership of the board.