How can i make bulk changes to all Boards in jira

[Sai Praveen Aminigadda]

Hello,

We have almost 2700 boards with different administrators, now we want to add a jira users group besides to the existing administrator. please let me know if there is any way, 

We have script runner but I'm not sure how to make it happen. 

Any Suggestions ??? 

[Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_]

Could you please explain what type of change you want to do  , here is one way to do it. As you  already have script runner so do the following steps 

Create a board which you will clone

1) Get all projects list

2) loop into the projects list and get the boards 

3) Delete the existing board

4) Clone the board using the script runner RapidViewBoard class (please search for this class, not sure the exact name but its similar like this)

[Sai Praveen Aminigadda]

@Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_ Thanks for your response, I don't want to clone the board.

I want to add a Jira users group as admin for all boards.

[Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_]

Then its not belongs to Board. What you need is 

1- Get all filters for Boards

2- Add the adming group to those filters with rights "Edit"

Please use this API

POST /rest/api/2/filter/{id}/permission

Request

EXAMPLE

{
    "type": "group",
    "groupname": "jira-administrators"}

https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/7.6.1/?_ga=2.104141184.1476483889.1555837994-1139998740.1525087811#api/2/filter-addSharePermission

[Sai Praveen Aminigadda]

@Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_ i don't understand, all the filters are having editing permissions by that group, and i'm asking for all kanban and scrum Board admin changes.  

[Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_]

There are two type of permissions 

Project level

 we define the project roles 

Board Level

We define the filters and then share the filter with teams so they can view the boards.

While sharing filters we have two options

Add Viewers: We can add project level or group level. These can only view the issues but cannot edit filters

Add Editors:  We can add project level or group level. Those can change the filters.

What actually you want to achieve, board level permissions are given globally .

[Michael Kuhl {Appfire}]

Hi @Sai Praveen Aminigadda - You can do this fairly easily using the Jira Agile CLI app.  It has an action named "addBoardAdministrators".  You can use the CLI to produce a list of the boards with the "runFromBoardList" action and then add the new administrator group to the boards in the list.

Here's an example:

--action runFromBoardList --common "-a addBoardAdministrators —group someGroup --id @boardId@"

[Sai Praveen Aminigadda]

Thanks for your response, I have installed in my Test instance, but it is showing that I need to install "Client CLI" as well, which is I'm not able to install, I have gone through the instructions and reached out  Bob Swift. but, I didn't get proper help to install it.

[Michael Kuhl {Appfire}]

You can see installation instructions and a download link on the CLI website.  

[Sai Praveen Aminigadda]

i tried install Client CLI but i'm getting this error, could you please check and let me know what i'm doing wrong.

[Michael Kuhl {Appfire}]

That likely means Java is not installed.  Make sure you have performed step 2 on the install guide page.