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Type: Suggestion
Resolution: Unresolved
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Project Administration - Users and Roles, User Management - Groups
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Atlassian Update – 4 April 2019

Hi everyone,

In the latest update, we shared that to solve the problem of renaming groups in Jira we would have to make fundamental, breaking changes, which would probably need a new platform release. We understand that this issue is causing extra workload and pain, that’s why we want to provide some guidance and support.

We prepared a knowledge base article that explains how to manually rename groups through the database, similarly to Confluence. We learned from you that an article like that would indeed be helpful. Please note that this procedure is not part of the Jira’s intended functionality, and the information is provided as-is. This is only a way of providing a solution as soon as possible. For customized Jira instances using multiple apps, this might not be sufficient, though. The scripts will update the group names in the Jira platform, which is shared between Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Service Desk (the latter two are built on top of the platform). It might happen that group names are also stored in places specific to Jira Software, Jira Service Desk or Portfolio for Jira, and these won’t be updated.

We still plan to solve the underlying problem and prioritize this suggestion for future consideration. We will post an update when new information is available.

Katarzyna Derenda
Product Manager, Jira Server

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Atlassian Update – 4 April 2019 Hi everyone, In the latest update, we shared that to solve the problem of renaming groups in Jira we would have to make fundamental, breaking changes, which would probably need a new platform release. We understand that this issue is causing extra workload and pain, that’s why we want to provide some guidance and support. We prepared a knowledge base article that explains how to manually rename groups through the database, similarly to Confluence. We learned from you that an article like that would indeed be helpful. Please note that this procedure is not part of the Jira’s intended functionality, and the information is provided as-is. This is only a way of providing a solution as soon as possible. For customized Jira instances using multiple apps, this might not be sufficient, though. The scripts will update the group names in the Jira platform, which is shared between Jira Core, Jira Software, and Jira Service Desk (the latter two are built on top of the platform). It might happen that group names are also stored in places specific to Jira Software, Jira Service Desk or Portfolio for Jira, and these won’t be updated. We still plan to solve the underlying problem and prioritize this suggestion for future consideration. We will post an update when new information is available. Katarzyna Derenda Product Manager, Jira Server
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Description

NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

Original request description:

As a JIRA administrator I am responsible for managing a large installation with multiple users and groups. Given the dynamic nature of my environment it is very difficult for me to create the correct user group name which can be used for many projects later on. I need to be able to rename the user groups, to reflect the changes my organisation undergoes.

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Issue Links

is duplicated by

JRASERVER-61890 Renamed LDAP Group is Not Reflected in Permission Scheme

Gathering Impact

JRASERVER-1132 Ability to modify Group NAme

Closed

JRASERVER-2207 Rename groups

Closed

JRASERVER-5460 Rename support of groups/users

Closed

JRASERVER-8644 Add the possibility to rename a Group

Closed

JRASERVER-9116 Group Browsing & Admin: <1> Add a new "group picker" popup (like the one for user acct picker) on all forms (search, issue create/edit, etc) and <2> Enable admins to rename an existing group

Closed

JRASERVER-9748 Add ability to edit the "Group Name" under "Group Browser > Group Name" (this functionality currently not available)

Closed

JRASERVER-59541 jira user and group administration

Closed

is incorporated by

JRASERVER-13297 SOAP Service Improvements - Especially with user management

Closed

is related to

CWD-4763 Inability for Crowd to detect renamed LDAP groups as Crowd does not track using its LDAP IDs yet

Closed

JRASERVER-3494 The group name is used as foreign key instead of the group id

Closed

JRASERVER-10100 Add ability to copy groups

Closed

JRASERVER-11125 JIRA 4.0 Enterprise Requirements

Closed

ID-126 Bulk Add and Remove Users to and from Multiple Groups

Gathering Interest

relates to

JRASERVER-1549 Ability to rename a user

Closed

JRASERVER-36637 When deleting a group, I should be prompted to change the sharing information for dashboards and filters

Closed

ID-6677 Renaming groups after creation.

Closed

BSERV-3051 Ability to rename groups

Gathering Interest

CWD-1599 Ability to rename groups

Under Consideration

was cloned as

JRASERVER-72769 Provide the ability to rename groups after creation

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Reporter:: Alwyn Schoeman

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Dates

Created:: 03/Mar/2003 10:23 AM

Updated:: 2 days ago 2:07 AM