This article helps you to remove unwanted users while creating a snapshot in PCJ. You can follow the below instructions.If you don’t want to include the users an export in the Project Configurator for Jira app.
If inclusion of users is not needed, it is not possible when exporting a project with its configuration and its data. Users will be included in the exported zip file.
As a workaround approach, you can do perform this by manually editing some XML files. Please follow Follow the below instructions to accomplish this.
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if you want to To remove the users in the exported zip file you will have to , unzip the exported zip file by downloading it and manually edit editing the configuration files in which users are included in the exported zip file.
The configuration files that where users will be are included are config.xml, entities.xml, and activeobjects.xml. You have to manually Manually remove the user entries which you don’t want that are not needed from these XML files. But, Note that editing those the XML files might may corrupt the complete zip configuration itself.
After removing the users who are not part of the particular project, and then zip the export file. Also, ensure that the zip file's hierarchy should be as shown in the screenshot below.
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