Trying to activate the developer clone of a site on which I'm a site admin.

[Jonathan Needham]

I need to bulk edit a large number of issues. However I don't want to test this on the production site, but I've tried doing https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#licensing-10 , but those don't display on the client site.  How do I get a copy of the site for development only?

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi Jonathan,

If I understand your situation here, you are wanting to test out some bulk changes to issues, but don't want to do this in a product site just yet.   The link you cited explains how Server customers can obtain developer licenses to test out major changes, like this.

However from what I can see about your account, I only see Jira Cloud associations for your account.  I don't see any Jira Server Commercial licenses that your account is a billing or technical contact for.  As such, per the link you cited:

Developer licenses are available to existing commercial and academic server license holders (not available for cloud or server Starter products)

Am I understanding this correctly that you are using a Jira Cloud site here?   If so, you could still create a backup of this site, then spin up a Jira Server site and import that data there to test this out.   In cases like that, you can't use a developer license because you do not yet have a commercial license.  But you could create an evaluation license for the sake of testing like this.  Those evals are only valid for 30 days, but in a case like this it should suffice.

I hope this helps to clarify, if I have misunderstood something here, please let me know.

Andy