How to change owner of a project

[Natalie Wentzel]

one of the site Admins left and user was deleted

Problem is she was the owner of a few active projects that we have

How do i change the owner of the projects to the second admin?

[Don Masten · Accepted solution]

to change the project lead for JIRA server

Project Settings > Users and roles > Edit Defaults (link on upper right hand side)


you will get a pop-up and can change the Project Lead there

[Natalie Wentzel]

Thanks i have changed all projects leads on active projects

The issue i am experiencing now is on a kanban board - cannot change the owner

[Don Masten]

the owner you see there is who owns the board filter

you can change filter owners here

System > Shared Filters

search for the filter and use the action wheel to change owner

[Natalie Wentzel]

This has helped - manged to change the owners of all relative boards my side

Thank you for the assistance!!!

[Todd Gantzer]

Hey all....I cant find: System > Shared Filters

[Yogesh Mude]

HI @Natalie Wentzel 

Project owner ..you mean to say..project lead/admin in jira?

[Natalie Wentzel]

she was the admin - created some of the projects and currently still on her name

[Yogesh Mude]

Okay .. you can change it to navigating through the respective project setting --> details.

on the project details page at the bottom, you can find the project lead and change it.

[Todd Gantzer]

That does not semm to change the owner

[Ademir Souza]

Yep. Still not changed the owner, just the project lead. Any ideas of how can I change the OWNER ?

Tks