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How to change project lead in a Next-Gen Project

Martin Coder

I've looked for help online but most point me to Project Details > People, which doesn't seem to allow me to make changes to project leads, only to change their Roles (administrator/member/viewer). I've looked through the documentation on Next Gen projects but I can't find anything regarding project leads.

Thank you

Accepted answers

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Next-gen projects do not (yet) support project leads.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Next-gen projects do not (yet) support project leads.

Martin Coder

Oh, nice. Thank you!

Lenny Fayard

When new projects are created there is a project lead in the view and it is currently being defaulted to the creator of the project. I created all of the projects for our Jira transition and now it shows me as the project lead for all of them. This is misleading for the teams and I'd like to update so that it shows the true project leads.

Jim Hutchins

I agree with @Lenny Fayard. Having the Lead prominently displayed on the projects summary view, but not having a way to change it is a problem. It should either be suppressed entirely, or be able to be made correct.

Tim Bodea

It *is* possible to update the Lead of a next gen project by following Sarwar's post here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/How-do-i-set-default-assignee-and-workflow-in-next-gen-projects/qaq-p/943401#U1045421

Mihamina

To avoid having to check a chain of websites/questions:

https://mihamina.rktmb.org/2019/07/project-lead-nextgen-project.html

nsorensen

This is the default assignee, not the project lead (correct me if I am wrong).

Pedro Silva_9jlf3t

It doesn't work

Leon Keuroglian

We currently face this issue, do we have an estimate on when it would be included in the product (Cloud)?

Iain Samuel McLean Elder

There is an open feature request to fix this:

As a project administrator, I want to be able to define and change a Project Lead in a next-gen project type
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17323

Search query:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/?jql=text%20~%20%22change%20lead%20next-gen%22%20ORDER%20BY%20updated%20desc

Comment and vote over there instead of here.

unknown

Hello everyone,

I had this problem too. I think it's obvious that we should be able to set project lead in JIRA itself but no way to do it since Next-gen.

I went with REST API to do it. First you have to create an API token in id.atlassian.net -> Security -> API Token

Then if you have Windows I sugest you to use WSL command line. (install kali linux in Windows Store for ex) because I went into some troubles with basic CMD.

Copy this line

To get id's, go to admin.atlassian.net and Users.

Select export users. This will give you a CSV file that you can import in Excel or sheets.

curl --request PUT --url 'https://youraccount.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project/projectKey' --user '<yourAccountEmailIdentifiedForAPIToken>:<your API Token' --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{