Is there a way to copy all the same roles from one project to another?

[kk4065896]

Hi All,

 Is there a way to copy all the same roles from one project to another? 

I have a project A and project B. I need same users and roles copy from project A to project B. Anyone can help me in this please.

Thanks in advance.

[Radek Dostál · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Not natively (definitely not in Server, very much believe not on Cloud either).

I believe that you would either need to run a groovy script using public Java API (if you have a plugin able to run those scripts on Cloud) - but I have high doubts that you will be able to use it to full extent without resorting to REST anyway - which is the second and more likely way with Cloud.

 - get ProjectRoleActors from role 1, project A

 - get ProjectRoleActors from role 2, project A

 - update project B's project role 1's membership to include those users

 - update project B's project role 2's membership to include those users

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-project-role-actors/#api-group-project-role-actors

If anybody has a better way or a plugin to make this easier, all the better. Myself I'd go with REST if you have experience with remote requests.

Of course the page from the textbook would say "use groups to avoid handling users this way", but I get you cannot always predict that - might ease your way though and you could skip REST by defining the right user groups and using those in both projects.

Regards,

Radek