Automating Jira

Useful Scripts to Automate certain features of Atlassian Cloud

Use cases

Using REST API to bulk change users on Atlassian Cloud.

• Create Users & Create Groups in Bulk ( Perform a Jira Cloud to Jira Cloud User Import)
• Delete Users in Bulk
• Bulk Change Managed Users Email Address
• Bulk Delete Jira Issues

Usage

• Bulk Deleting Users in User Management
• Bulk Changed Claim domain email Address
• Bulk Create Users and Add them to Groups on JIRA Cloud
• Bulk delete Jira Issues including sub-task

How to Use

1. Make use that you have user permission right on the file.

2. On your Terminal run chmod u+x <filename>.sh

3. Then to initiate the script run ./<filename>.sh

4. you will require your emailAddress and API-TOKEN to authenticate your user. get one from https://id.atlassian.com

Create a CSV file or Download the list from admin.atlassian.com

Create User Import

There are two files that needs to be supplied.

1. The User file
2. The Membership file

The User file should include the accountID, emailAddress in the below format.

id	name	email	active	date	LastLogin
5559343a3813hag	User 1	[email protected]	Yes	2 Nov 2019	Never logged in

You can remove the header of the csv file prior to beginning the script.

Create Group Import

The Group CSV file should include the groupname, accountID, emailAddress in the below format.

• This script doesn't do much validation
• Ensure that the file is correct as below

groupname	id	name	email	active	date
Fit group	5559343a3813hag	User 1	[email protected]	Yes	2 Nov 2019

Please remove the header of the csv file prior to beginning the script.

Bulk Change Managed Users Email

The CSV file format should look like below after you've downloaded it. Depending on how many applications you have on your Cloud Instance, you can remove the other columns and just leave 6 columns as shown below.

id	name	email	active	date	LastLogin
5559343a3813hag	User 1	[email protected]	Yes	2 Nov 2019	Never logged in

• The email column should be the new emailaddress you want to change to e.g. from [email protected] to [email protected] so on the file you should place [email protected], because that's the email you want to change to.

• Please remove the header of the csv file prior to beginning the script.

Bulk Delete Users

The CSV file format should look like below.

id	name	email	active	date	LastLogin
5559343a3813hag	User 1	[email protected]	Yes	2 Nov 2019	Never logged in

Please remove the header of the csv file prior to beginning the script.

Bulk Delete Jira Issues

Ensure that the Project is visible to you; that means, you have "BROWSE" Project Permission and the "DELETE" Issues Permission of the Permission Scheme