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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.
You may already have done this, but note that you must start typing to get an auto-suggest list.
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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
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I was having exactly the same problem too. I think this is definitely UI/UX design issue
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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.
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Thanks - I've been stuck on this for days! I swear that I've also tried typing names before but it worked today.
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This solution doesn't work for me. I cannot type over the existing name at all.
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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.
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Hi @mark_smith-magee I'm having the same issue. Were you able to successfully update the Project Lead? If so, how? Thanks!
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