How to disable Whats-New popup for specific users?

[Rahul K]

Is there a way to disable this Whats New pop-up for specific users? Can anyone provide the DB table and column which stores this disable/enable flag for the popup for a user?

There are some customer we have for whome the links on the Whats-New page are blocked. So we want to block the popup for such users.

I do not want to completely disable the 'JIRA Welcome Plugin' as it is still useful for our regular users.

System Config: JIRA 6.1.9, Oracle Database

Any pointers would be helpful.

-Rahul

[crf · Accepted solution]

The welcome plugin uses a user preference to indicate that the whatsnew dialog has already been dismissed.  It has the key "jira.user.welcome.dismissed".  There is also a REST endpoint that you can use to set it explicitly, and if you set it to "true" for a given user, then that should suppress the dialog.

There may be some events (like major version upgrades) that will clear this, however.

[crf]

Ultimately, user preferences are stored in a property set, so at the database level, it would mean two rows: 1. A propertyentry with entity_name='ApplicationUser', entity_id=(SELECT id FROM app_user WHERE lower_user_name='username_in_lowercase'), property_key='jira.user.welcome.dismissed', and propertytype=1 2. A propertynumber with the same ID as the propertyentry and a propertyvalue of 1 for true or 0 for false

[Rahul K]

Thanks Chris. Can you let me know what is the REST endpoint URL to update another users preference?

[crf]

As far as I'm aware, there isn't one. User preferences are meant to keep track of... well... that user's preferences. You can change your own preferences using the endpoint at /rest/api/2/mypreferences but fiddling with another user's preferences is not something that was anticipated when that endpoint was created.

[Rahul K]

Thanks. That is what I thought as well looking at the existing APIs.

[crf]

The welcome plugin itself also defines a rest endpoint that I think ends up at .../whatsnew/1.0/show and accepts DELETE requests to hide it, but this too updates the preferences for the current user only, not for anybody else.