How to add/delete group from user roles in project roles?

[Tayyab Bashir]

Hi,
JIRA Version: 7.2.6

I want to add a group "ABC" and delete a group "XYZ" from the user roles in Project roles, of all the projects. 

Since there are over 250 projects and every project has XYZ added as a group in project roles, I can't manually go in each project and delete that group and replace it with ABC. 

How can I do it with some automation? 

Regards,
Tayyab

[Tayyab Bashir · Accepted solution]

I was able to solve this with REST calls. 

I made a rest call and got all the projects. 
From that I retrieved all the project ids. 

Then I traversed through all the IDs, and made POST and DELETE requests for adding and deleting groups alternatively. 

Following are the rest calls:

1. For getting all the projects

http://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/project

2. For Adding group.

http://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/project/'+projectId+'/role/'+projectRoleID+

3. For Deleting group.

http://localhost:8080/rest/api/2/project/'+projecId+'/role/projectRoleID?group=groupToDelete

[NagaPavan Nalamati]

HI Tayab

Delete call is not working 

i'm getting http status code as no content and user is not deleted

any help?

Thanks in advance 

[Vasanthakumar V]

@Tayyab Bashir 

I need to add XYZ group into the ABC project with admin role, could you please suggest how to achive this?

[Alex Christensen]

Might be kind of a wonky solution, but would this work for you?

1. Remove all users from group XYZ.
2. Add the necessary users into group XYZ.

I can't tell if ABC is a brand new group you're creating or an existing one, but if it's a brand new group, I guess you could just use the existing XYZ group if none of the existing members in XYZ need access to those 250+ projects anymore.

Also, I don't think you can change the name of a user group in JIRA once it's created, so you'd be stuck with "XYZ" - not sure if that would be an issue for you.

Thought I'd throw that our there, at least. Other than this, I can't think of anything that Nic didn't already say.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Only way I can think of doing this is with scripting or add-ons

(Well, ok, database hackery, but I simply cannot recommend that.  Ever)