What happens to plugin data when I uninstall and reinstall plugin?

[Niranjan]

Hi All,

I have question on jira/confluence plugins. I have a plugin that is being used by users , say Quick sub-tasks for JIRA, where users would have created sub-tasks templates in their projects for creating multiple sub-tasks. The plugin is not working and I was unable to enable few modules of the plugin. I had uninstalled the plugin and have reinstalled it again. Will there be any loss of data, say existing sub-tasks templates that were created in projects? Will reinstalling the plugin map the plugin related data? Thanks

Regards

Niran

[Tarun Sapra]

Hello @Niranjan 

"Uninstalling" the plugin never removes any data from the DB. Thus, when you install the plugin again then you should see plugin templates again.

[Tarun Sapra]

I have done it multiple times with many plugins, but still I strongly suggest you to have a proper test instance in place so that you can play with all such scenarios. 

[Manali Salvi]

@Tarun Sapra How do I go about cleaning up the plugin templates before installing the plugin again?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

It depends on the plugins. Some plugins might have tasks that are done during uninstallation. That is rarely the case but possible.

A typical example is when a plugin does cleanup during uninstallation.As Tarun suggested, always good to try it out in a Test environment before doing in prod. Also, make sure you read the plugin documentation to be sure.