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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-33791

Roll back the change that prevents users from being deleted if they have made comments

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

      In old versions of JIRA, a user couldn't be deleted if it had issues reported or assigned by him. In the latest release, if there are comments made to issues by this user as well, it is no longer possible to remove them.

      The following message is displayed: Cannot delete user. 'test' has associations in JIRA that cannot be removed automatically.

      Change the following and try again:

      Issue Comments: 1

      Our documentation on deleting users doesn't mention that.

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          is caused by

          Suggestion - ID-133 Make it easier to deactivate users in Atlassian OnDemand and harder to delete them

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          relates to

          Suggestion - JRACLOUD-33791 Roll back the change that prevents users from being deleted if they have made comments

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          Suggestion - JRASERVER-33837 Edit the documentation on Deleting Users

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              cgauterio Clarissa Gauterio (Inactive)
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