We are updating the names of the Jira Cloud projects in jira.atlassian.com

[#1]

Back in May, we announced that we’re unifying Jira Software and Jira Work Management into a single product: Jira. Since then, we have been busy behind the scenes updating references to ‘Jira Software’ into ‘Jira’. Accordingly, on Aug 5, 2024 we are updating the project names of the Jira JAC projects. The changes are:

“Jira Software Cloud” will be renamed to “Jira Cloud”

“Jira Cloud” will be renamed to “Jira Platform Cloud”

The Project Keys for the Jira JAC projects are not changing. This name change will impact any JQL queries that refer to the Project Name field of Jira projects in jira.atlassian.com. Please ensure that you amend those JQL queries to refer to the Project Keys instead of the Project Name fields.

[Joni Johnson]

When you reference JQL filters using "project name field", what is the actual field name? I have many filters that use project = ... and I enter the project key to get the quick selection. Is there a way to search to find all the filters that use the "project name field"?

[Matt Doar _Adaptavist_]

The JQL project keyword looks for a project id (numeric) then the project key (short, uppercase) then the project name, in that order, IIRC

[Joni Johnson]

@Matt Doar _Adaptavist_ To make sure I am following, the JQL is created is project = "Project Name". The Project Name is filled in when I enter the project key of PN and select the filtered results. The JQL that uses the project field searches by the numeric, the key (PN), then the project name. Sounds like the queries where I selected the filtered results to put in project name need to be changed by what was shared in this post.

Please confirm. If that is the case, is there a way to quickly find the number of queries impacted?

[Matt Doar _Adaptavist_]

This change will affect any saved query that looks like:

project = "Jira Cloud"

The query should be changed to use the new project name:

project = "Jira Platform Cloud"

But JQL queries that use the project key and look like

project = JRACLOUD

should continue to work, as should a query that uses the project id, such as

project = 18514

Hope this helps. To find all such queries you could use the REST API as an admin and extract all the shared queries, then check the JQL text for each one and create a list of queries and their owners. I would usually let people know about the change and if their queries are important they will likely update them

[Joni Johnson]

Thank you for the rest API reference. That is great information to know that I will share with our Site Admins. For context, I have the Jira Admin role yet our Site Admins setup the projects, workflows, and screen schemes. I do a lot of queries.

I am still unclear on if this is going to impact the queries I already have in place. As I re-read the initial post, I noticed it mentions " Jira JAC projects" which is a new term for me which I understand is Jira Agile Classic.

Is this impacting ALL active Jira Projects we have setup in our Cloud Instance that I view under View All Projects? All of our projects are company managed and we have a combination of Jira - software projects and Jira - business projects.