How to change project owner in new JIRA?

[Erik de Jong]

I can confirm that your code works, Brett. Thanks.

[Ronald Petty]

We removed the former owner and now get "former user" as the owner.  Be nice to actually attach to existing employee (easily).

[Steffen Lyng]

Come on Atlassian.. 18 months since this request was made. It seems so simple to fix.

[Jay Beta]

Agreed its been 18 months. This shouldn't be this hard.

[Gerard]

Please, fix it ASAP! It's important for us.

[Shafi Shafizada]

+

[Susan Escalona]

Add our team to the people who need this. We had a few folks move around projects and roles or leave and now we're stuck with legacy mis-information. Unacceptable.

[Katherine Maddox]

+1 as well. Is there really no way to remove the project owner? In our case, the owner has left the company and we cannot deactivate her account since she is a project owner. Is there anyway to change/delete her without deleting the project?

[Mike Amerson]

@Atlassian, Please help.  Im stuck.
I removed an old employee from Jira, who was the original product owner for the project im working on. Im the admin on the project, but it doesn't grant ownership.  Now i can't change the statuses on any of the tasks i've added, nor can any other admin on the project. 
What can i do to fix this?

[Jonathan Miles]

I got Brett's code above to work, but had to do some digging. First, I had to get the list of users that had Jeff.

curl -D- -u <email>:<api key> -X GET \
https://<instance>.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/user/search?username=jeff* -k

Then I parsed the returned JSON and got

"name":"<db guid>"

 Then I ran Brett's code as so:

curl -D- -u <email>:<api key> -X PUT \
https://<instance>.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/project/<key> -k \
-H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"lead" : "<db guid>"}'

And boom, it worked.

[Sandi Slavko]

FOUND IT!  worked for me (Cloud version)

use this URL: <JIRA-URL>/secure/admin/filters/ViewSharedFilters.jspa

OR 

Admin --> Jira Settings --> System --> Shared Filters

-- find your board & select *** --> Change Owner --> enter new user name & Save

[Sandi Slavko]

FOUND IT!  worked for me (Cloud version)

use this URL: <JIRA-URL>/secure/admin/filters/ViewSharedFilters.jspa

OR 

Admin --> Jira Settings --> System --> Shared Filters

-- find your board & select *** --> Change Owner --> enter new user name & Save

[Julien Daxbek]

Perfect, this method works like a charm. Thanks ! 

[Stefanos Avramidis]

Thank you so much. I've been tearing my hair out over this!

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

This is now the only way to get it changed:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Next-gen-articles/Ultimate-agility-the-ONLY-way-to-change-a-Next-Gen-Project-lead/ba-p/1296695#M1232

[Andy - PTC Redundant]

@Dave Meyer : how many votes is it going to take to get this Change Lead feature request shipped??

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-17323

[Carlos Mioto]

Great tip, Sandi. Works fine. 

Thanks. 

[Monica Morris]

This worked for me also Sandi, thank you so much!

[Anatolii Kirzo]

+1 same

[Marshall Lucas]

We all still need this ability.  When someone leaves we have no way to set the Project Owner to another user which prevents changing some of the filters and other things about the project.  There needs to be a way to change the user that OWNS the project.

Thanks,

Aoife

[Sandi Slavko]

(Cloud version)

use this URL: <JIRA-URL>/secure/admin/filters/ViewSharedFilters.jspa

OR 

Admin --> Jira Settings --> System --> Shared Filters

-- find your board & select *** --> Change Owner --> enter new user name & Save

[Lucas Duggins]

Why can't someone in the Project administrators role change the Project lead?  I look at the project lead as a business sponsor, those individuals change from time to time,  and a Global admin should not be the only person allowed to change that.  It should be any Project Admin assigned to the project.  Can we get this changed?  

[marisa.jones]

The second option settings - This worked great, thank you!