Change a projects type

pnelsonsr November 30, 2015

Just setup a cloud JIRA instance and it asked me to create a project.  I did and it created a project that is Software type.  My project was more of a Business type. I there a way to change that or do I need to delete and recreate?

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Akeem Hoque November 30, 2015

Simple fix dude.. 

First make sure you have Admin rights...

  1. Go to Settings (top right conner)
  2.  Projects > (You should see a list of all the projects) 
  3. Under "Operations"  
  4. click on "Change project type" 
  5. From the drop down menu click on "Business" and click Change. 

 

=) 

pnelsonsr December 1, 2015

This changes just between Software and Business. But when I recreated the project it had a few more descriptive options. I wonder if those options display if I try and change the project type...

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Akeem Hoque December 2, 2015

That's normal.. But you can choose to customize to your heart's content. =)

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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January 29, 2016

The project type is mostly for telling JIRA how to do the initial setup, and then later (JIRA 7 onwards), classification as well.  As Akeem says, you can "customise to your heart's content" later - that means changing the project schemes to ones suitable for your newly selected project type (or other schemes that work better)

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Neena Kapil Talreja June 26, 2021

Hi Akeem,

Request you kindly let me know where is the operations tab?? couldn't locate under projects??

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June 27, 2021

No-one mentioned a tab.

Try the operation menu next to each project.

Zachary Hayes October 15, 2021

@Neena Kapil Talreja if you're not seeing "Operations", try the ... drop down, then Edit, and then there's a dropdown to change the Project Type,

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Randy White August 14, 2019

How do I create a new Type other than Business, Software or Service Desk, we had different types when I was at the FAA. I cannot seem to create a new type in the current software. 

Randy

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August 14, 2019

Those types have sub-types, but my guess is that the FAA used Cloud Jira, and your new place does not.  The sub-types list on Cloud is a LOT longer (but still fixed)

Randy White August 15, 2019

The FAA did not have the cloud 3 years ago, it was server based. We build Flight Simulators and the Types do not match our engineering and development.  We have Engineering, mechanical electrical and software, along with fabrication. I am having to build everything under Software

Randy

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August 15, 2019

In that case, the types you had at the FAA were provided by apps that added more project types.

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