Fastest way to make JIRA read only?

[Olivia Rymer]

We recently migrated two instances of Jira into one. We now need to make the old instance "read-only" to ensure that individuals are not adding issues to the old instance. Besides creating a permission scheme and applying it to every single project, is there a way to bulk do this to all projects? 

[Adrian Stephen]

Hi @Olivia Rymer 

There are a few existing discussions around this topic which may help you :

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Can-JIRA-or-Confluence-be-put-into-quot-read-only-quot-mode/qaq-p/725010
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-to-make-JIRA-Readonly/qaq-p/326213
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Jira-Software-read-only-access-for-customers/qaq-p/248398
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/How-do-I-grant-users-limited-read-only-access/qaq-p/34096
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/JIRA-Read-only/qaq-p/110085
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Creating-a-Read-Only-user-in-Jira/qaq-p/961204
• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Text-Field-read-only/qaq-p/182646

I hope this helps. 

[Andrew Morin]

To the best of my knowledge there is no easy way to do this. You must apply a read only permission scheme to each project. This can be done at the database layer but be careful. This post may point you in the right direction.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Which-JIRA-database-table-maps-project-to-permission-scheme/qaq-p/571938