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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-24961

The Hundred Tab Problem

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

      Story: a JIRA administrator (or JIRA user) wants to perform some set of actions many hundreds of times. These actions are available via the web to the user.
      Many administrators open a new tab for each action in turn, because there is no easy way to automate bulk operations, e.g. changing a scheme on a project.

      Aim: make JIRA configuration and maintenance scale as well as JIRA data does by making it easier for users to automate actions in JIRA

      Currently administrators have a few choices. Users have fewer choices. All these choices are:

      1. UI tools (Selenium) - pretty crude and sensitive to UI changes
      2. A SOAP/REST plugin to expose an API to execute the set of operations, and then use a client-side script. This is probably the most common approach right now.
      3. A plugin to execute just that set of operations - can be a fair amount of work, not clear which internal APIs to use or how to use them
      4. A Jelly script - outdated, little support in the last three years
      5. (JIRA 4.3 and later) Speakeasy is the client-side approach to doing this in the browser, but it doesn't allow access to all the actions that administrators or users may want to use.

      There are at least two plugins available that let you execute Groovy, JRuby, Jython etc scripts inside JIRA. They are Script Runner (https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/6820) and JIRA REST CLI (http://leonardinius.blogspot.com/2011/03/release-announcement-jira-rest-cli-05.html and https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/40268)

      This issue is the result of a number of discussions at Summit, plus feedback received on "Practical JIRA Administration" (O'Reilly, 2011).

            [JRASERVER-24961] The Hundred Tab Problem

            Aakrity Tibrewal added a comment -
            Atlassian Update - 17 April 2025

            Hello,

            Thank you for submitting this suggestion. We appreciate you taking the time to share your ideas for improving our products, as many features and functions come from valued customers such as yourself.

            Atlassian is committed to enhancing the security and compliance of our Data Center products, with an emphasis on sustainable scalability and improving the product experience for both administrators and end-users. We periodically review older suggestions to ensure we're focusing on the most relevant feedback. This suggestion is being closed due to a lack of engagement in the last four years, including no new watchers, votes, or comments. This inactivity suggests a low impact. Therefore, this suggestion is not in consideration for our future roadmap.

            Please note the comments on this thread are not being monitored.

            You can read more about our approach to highly voted suggestions here and how we prioritize what to implement here.

            To learn more about our recent investments in Jira Data Center, please check our public roadmap and our dashboards, which contain recently resolved issues, current work, and future plans.

            Kind regards,
            Jira Data Center

            Aakrity Tibrewal added a comment - Atlassian Update - 17 April 2025 Hello, Thank you for submitting this suggestion. We appreciate you taking the time to share your ideas for improving our products, as many features and functions come from valued customers such as yourself. Atlassian is committed to enhancing the security and compliance of our Data Center products, with an emphasis on sustainable scalability and improving the product experience for both administrators and end-users. We periodically review older suggestions to ensure we're focusing on the most relevant feedback. This suggestion is being closed due to a lack of engagement in the last four years , including no new watchers, votes, or comments. This inactivity suggests a low impact. Therefore, this suggestion is not in consideration for our future roadmap. Please note the comments on this thread are not being monitored. You can read more about our approach to highly voted suggestions here and how we prioritize what to implement here. To learn more about our recent investments in Jira Data Center, please check our public roadmap and our dashboards, which contain recently resolved issues , current work, and future plans. Kind regards, Jira Data Center

            MattS added a comment -

            Are there any changes related to making administering a 1000 project, 1000 custom fields, 200 workflows, 400 screens JIRA instance easier?

            MattS added a comment - Are there any changes related to making administering a 1000 project, 1000 custom fields, 200 workflows, 400 screens JIRA instance easier?

            MattS added a comment -

            Thomas, glad to see that plugin and it will help with workflow changes. But there are still many other places where JIRA administration is tedious. I notice that Bob Swift's CLI now supports changing some of a project's schemes which will also help with tedious administration tasks.

            MattS added a comment - Thomas, glad to see that plugin and it will help with workflow changes. But there are still many other places where JIRA administration is tedious. I notice that Bob Swift's CLI now supports changing some of a project's schemes which will also help with tedious administration tasks.

            Thomas Fuchs added a comment -

            For a bulk workflow switch there is a solution from Catworkx..

            https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.catworkx.plugins.BulkWorkflowSchemeSwitcher

            it works fine for me

            Cheers
            Thomas

            Thomas Fuchs added a comment - For a bulk workflow switch there is a solution from Catworkx.. https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.catworkx.plugins.BulkWorkflowSchemeSwitcher it works fine for me Cheers Thomas

            MattS added a comment -

            Yes, I believe so.

            ~Matt

            MattS added a comment - Yes, I believe so. ~Matt

            Eva added a comment -

            Just to be clear, we would still have this problem on 5.0?

            Eva added a comment - Just to be clear, we would still have this problem on 5.0?

            Leonid M added a comment - - edited

            Just to make things more interesting: I've updated my rest-cli plugin to be atlassian-crossproduct.

            Supports tools:

            • jira
            • confluence
            • bamboo

            You could find it at https://github.com/leonardinius/atlassian-rest-cli

            Leonid M added a comment - - edited Just to make things more interesting: I've updated my rest-cli plugin to be atlassian-crossproduct. Supports tools: jira confluence bamboo You could find it at https://github.com/leonardinius/atlassian-rest-cli

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