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How to transfer a permission from one group to another?

Dusan Petrovic_l8uscg

I want to transfer a group permission if organizational groups are renamed or entire teams change departments, it may be necessary to transfer permissions from one group to another over a large area. For this reason, I should have the ability to quickly transfer permissions from one group to another. If anyone know how to do that, feel free to give me solutions

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Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@Dusan PetrovicIf the group name is changes permission which you have given to group in a project doesn't change, if members of a group change project, then you just need to remove them from the group , create and new group and add user's who change department to this group then give the permission base on group in the other project which they are now in .

Best!

Dusan Petrovic_l8uscg

In general I can think of the following cases where groups are used for assigning permissions throughout JIRA:

Project permissions

Project roles

Global permissions

In workflow conditions

In workflow validators

Given that we have quite a lot of permission schemes for our projects, lots of different projects with various role configurations and lots and lots of workflows with different conditions and validators we run into problems. Whenever we need to transfer permissions from one group to another, we would have to manually identify in which permission scheme, which role configuration and which workflow condition the old group was used. Doing this would require clicking through every project and every single transition in every workflow. This would be a strenous manual task and is simply not feasible given the amount of group changes we have.

That’s where my task comes in. While it would be lots of work to click through all of the screens manually, using programming it should be possible to do all of this automatically. There should be a away to programatically determine where a group is used (by scanning through all project permissions and so on). Then, once all permissions for a given group have been found, they should be transferred to a new group.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You will need to do a LOT of coding to find the usage of a group like this. It's one of the reasons we recommend using roles as much as possible instead of groups - you rarely change those, just add and remove users and groups to the roles.

The workflow changes will be particularly hard - they are stored as xml in the database, so you'll be writing a parser amongst other things.

Dusan Petrovic_l8uscg

Thank you for your answer. Do you know is there any addon which I can use to solve this or it is only possible by coding?