Cannot change project lead

[Jeff]

I believe I've reviewed every post and tried every option going back several years without success. We used to be able to do this (although even then was a bit of an adventure)

Bottom line: the dialog below looks like my best chance of success -- but where are the users?

Users are in the project, the project has other admins (besides the overall Jira admins).

For any devs at Atlassian -- what is the logic that populates my options here?

At a loss.

Using Server Jira v8.6.1

[Payne · Accepted solution]

You may already have done this, but note that you must start typing to get an auto-suggest list.

[Jeff]

Tail between legs. Shoot me. That did it.

[Payne]

Ha ha, happens to the best of us! :-) 

[erica_dahl]

thank you for asking this question.  I was having exactly the same problem and found this question in the "related questions" links to the right.  

I feel like this is a new thing too because I've been changing project leads for months

[jeepkd]

I was having exactly the same problem too. I think this is definitely UI/UX design issue

[Wade Metzler]

Yes thanks Jeff for researching and posting this. Tripped me up for a long while today. Agree with jeepkd - very poor UX on this screen from Atlassian.

[Shannon Davis]

Thanks - I've been stuck on this for days!  I swear that I've also tried typing names before but it worked today.

[Greg Johnson]

This solution doesn't work for me.  I cannot type over the existing name at all.

[mark_smith-magee]

I'm an administrator using JIRA v8.11.0 and followed the advice about using Edit Defaults then just type in the Project Lead field until the required name is auto-suggested. Then hit the Update button and the Edit Project Lead and Default Assignee for Project pop-up box disappears to leave me on the Project Lead > User and Roles screen and the Project Lead entry alters to Default Assignee. Refresh the page and I'm back to the original set up and nothing has changed. 

Alternatively, if I change the current Project Lead role to unassigned and return to the Edit Project Lead > User and Roles screen the Project Lead entry alters to Default Assignee.  On clicking Edit Defaults both the Project Lead and Default Assignee are blank and labelled Select.  I type the name of the relevant person and choose from the auto-suggest list, then click Default Assignee and choose Project Lead.  This time when I hit Update nothing happens - it remains there and I'm unable to commit the changes.

[Susan Kirby Corder]

Hi @mark_smith-magee I'm having the same issue. Were you able to successfully update the Project Lead?  If so, how?  Thanks!