How to change project owner in new JIRA?

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Erik de Jong February 15, 2019

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

Ronald Petty April 25, 2019

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

Steffen Lyng June 3, 2019

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

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Jay Beta June 25, 2019

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

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Gerard July 8, 2019

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

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Shafi Shafizada July 12, 2019

+

Susan Escalona July 23, 2019

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.

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Katherine Maddox August 15, 2019

+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?

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Mike Amerson October 28, 2019

@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 November 6, 2019

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.

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Sandi Slavko November 22, 2019

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

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Sandi Slavko November 22, 2019

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

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Julien Daxbek November 26, 2019

Perfect, this method works like a charm. Thanks ! 

Stefanos Avramidis December 6, 2019

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

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@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

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Carlos Mioto March 3, 2020

Great tip, Sandi. Works fine. 

Thanks. 

Monica Morris April 21, 2020

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

Anatolii Kirzo May 4, 2020

+1 same

Marshall Lucas July 10, 2020

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 July 11, 2020

(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

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Lucas Duggins March 23, 2021

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 October 8, 2021

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

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