Description

This describes steps to use the JIRA CLI to copy users from one instance to another for either Server or Cloud instances. Copying all users or all user in a group to an new instance can be automated without scripting. If you need to select specific users, some manual or scripted steps may be needed to do the selection. Treat the techniques described here as examples that can be adjusted based on specific requirements.

Requirements

This requires CLI client version 7.0 or higher.
Customize your atlassian start script to include access to both JIRA instances (jira1 and jira2 in this example) and also to the CSV CLI.
- See Atlassian CLI Start Script for more information.

Steps

Step

Action

Example

1

Export users from original instance.

getUserList

Action

atlassian jira1 -a getUserList --outputFormat 999 --group jira-users --columns user,name,email,groups --file users.csv

Result File

users.csv

"User","Name","Email","Groups"
"admin","Administrator","admin@examplegear.com","jira-users,jira-administrators"
"bob","Bob Swift","bob@examplegear.com","jira-users,jira-administrators"
...

2

Modify csv file so that the column names match parameter names for the addUser action.

copyCsv

atlassian csv -a copyCsv --sourceFile users.csv --file addUsers.csv --findReplace "User:userId,Name:userFullName,Email:userEmail,Groups:group"

Result file

addUsers.csv

"userId","userFullName","userEmail","group"
"admin","Administrator","admin@examplegear.com","jira-users,jira-administrators"
"bob","Bob Swift","bob@examplegear.com","jira-users,jira-administrators"
...

3

Import users to new instance.

runFromCsv

atlassian jira2 --action runFromCsv --file addUsers.csv --common "-a addUser --continue" --continue

Result

...
Run: -a addUser --userId "admin" --userFullName "Administrator" --userEmail "admin@examplegear.com" --group "jira-users,jira-administrators"

User 'admin' added.
...
Run: -a addUser --userId "bob" --userFullName "Bob Swift" --userEmail "bob@examplegear.com" --group "jira-users,jira-administrators"

User 'bob' added.
....

How to Copy Users to Another Instance