How to change project owner in new JIRA?

[Jean LAMY]

As an administrator I can't find a way to change project owner for a project created by one of my users.

I can only add or remove users.

As said, I'm using JIRA cloud with new design.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Jean,

do you mean the Project lead?  If so, do the following:

• open the project
• click on "Settings":
  
  
• then "Details" (if it is not open already):
  
  
• There you find the field "Project lead", which you can set to a new user

[Joseph Niemiec]

Hi Thomas,

I can't seem to find that in the current version. Right now I have complete admin access to our OnDemand cloud jira but there is no project lead option exposed to even be changed. 

Any ideas? I am fine making an API call if there is a way to say CURL some post data.

[Thomas Schlegel]

@Joseph Niemiec - it is there - here is a screenshot of a detail view, copied just now:

[Joseph Niemiec]

Hi @Thomas Schlegel  is this perhaps a theme issue? I have included what I see and the roles that I also have. 

[Joseph Niemiec]

It appears this problem is specific to the 'agility template' if I used anything else these options exist for me. 

[Dave Meyer]

Hi everyone,

Currently it's not possible to change the project lead for projects created with the Agility template (it's not related to the old vs new UI change).

We would love to hear what you use the Project Lead feature for so we can understand how we can incorporate it into the Agility project template in an improved way.

Cheers,

Dave Meyer

Jira Cloud Product Management

[Joseph Niemiec]

We would use this field for team lead so that people who are not currently working on that project understand who the main point of contact is. This assists with targeting general questions and for new hires to easily onboard and understand the differing project leaders he may need to communicate with. Otherwise we end up having to do this in confluence and its disconnected from Jira itself persay. 

PS - Epics don't work with Agility either which appears to break Jira Portfolio's usefulness.  

[Dave Meyer]

Hi @Joseph Niemiec, thanks for replying! Where do your users normally find this? On the project list page?

[Joseph Niemiec]

That is correct, from our corporate confluence homepage we have a nice HUGE Jira logo (1 of 6 important links) that links directly to the Project Page skipping the dashboards and going right to the overview. 

Of course I am open to other ideas/recommendations to do with this. We are looking at Team Calendar but also concerned if its features will be as useful with the 'Agility' template. 

[Dave Meyer]

Hi Joseph, totally understand. I'll take your feedback to the team to inform how we prioritize adding this back to the Project Details page.

In the meantime, it's still possible to update the project lead via the Jira REST API. You can do this by running something like:

curl -X PUT \
 https://EXAMPLE.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/project/PROJECT_KEY \
 -H 'Authorization: Basic APITOKEN' \
 -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 -d '{"lead" : "USERNAME"}'

 where EXAMPLE is your Jira Cloud instance, PROJECT_KEY is the key of the project you want to change, APITOKEN is a token you generate from here, and USERNAME is the username of the user you want to set the lead to.

[Joseph Niemiec]

@Dave Meyer you rock Thank you for sharing the details on the curl command. Can't wait to sit down and give it a whirl tomorrow. 

[Craig Anderson]

Please add a feature to change this.    Currently we have projects owned by someone who is no longer at the company.   This is not a good situation.