[Suggestion] Improve Manage Projects menu

[Michiel Schuijer]

(i)(?) I tried selecting product "Jira" or "Jira Cloud", for the "What topic are you posting about?" field, but that is not available in the drop-down?! Jira Work Management does not even exist anymore, it should all be "Jira" now and no more JWM or Jira Core, right?

Anyway, as a Jira Admin (for 15+ years) I would really like a lot of things improved, but the "Manage Projects" menu is one that is bothering me a lot.

In Jira Data Center it became available at some point, to see more and filter better, but in Jira cloud it is really limited and making my work as an org admin really hard.

1. Why does an admin have to search separately for projects in  "Manage projects" and "Archive"? I don't know in advance where it will be, so I have to check both menus, which is not efficient/waisting time.
2. Why can't I search by project lead, to find projects where a certain lead is set?
3. Why not show the amount of issues included in a project in the overview and optionally allow to filter on this, to find unused/abandoned projects?
   *In Backup manager it shows the number of issues per project for team-managed projects, so it is easily available.
4. Why can you not search for team-managed projects? There is a filter for "product", but this lists only "Jira - business projects", "Jira - software projects", "Jira Service Management" and recently "Jira Product Discovery".
   *In Backup manager it shows the team-managed projects, so it is easily available, but that menu has problems of its own: try deleting a team-managed project that has been archived; it will not tell you it failed because it's archived.

For example, searching a project based on project lead is not available/possible:

The use case is obvious to me: often there are people in your company who are project lead for several or even dozens of projects. To make communication with them easier and provide them a list of all projects they are responsible for, I would like to extract these quickly (filter on project lead), and the extract should include a column of number of issues in it as well as last updated date. To contact and confront project leads about periodic clean-up/archival this is a hard requirement.

The other cases are just day-to-day operations I require those options for.

Let me know if other admins agree or have tips.

p.s. I already resort to Postman to export projects, use the visualisation to create a table which I then copy/paste to Sheets (Google/Excel/Numbers/LibreOffice) so I can format and copy/paste a list in an email or Jira issue. Waayy to much work.

[John Funk · Accepted solution]

Hi Michiel,

Thanks for your post, but it won't do a lot of good here. You need to submit a support ticket with Atlassian for those suggestions.

https://support.atlassian.com/contact/#/

[Michiel Schuijer]

I thought I'd give it a try...