How do you determine where a group is used?

Question

We are looking to streamline our groups. This will involve deleting many of them that we believe to be redundant. How can I determine the impact of deleting a group? I know that I can look at the View Group screen and JIRA will display which Permission Schemes, Notification Schemes, Issue Security Schemes and Saved Filters are associated with the group; however, this does not say if a group is associated with a default group as part of a role assignment for a project. This can be found by looking at each project, but this is fairly laborious.

Is there some database query (or queries) that can be run that would identify group usage?

Christian Czaia [Decadis AG] · Answer

Hey,

the following query returns the projectrole, the group in that role and the project using that role:

SELECT r.roletypeparameter, pr.name, p.pname as project FROM jira_prod.projectroleactor r
left outer join project p on r.pid = p.id
left outer join projectrole pr on r.projectroleid = pr.id
where roletype = "atlassian-group-role-actor";

Cheers Christian