How to remove a user from the project role for multiple projects using the app Run CLI action for Jira on Datacenter instance.

This article explains how to remove a user as Project Admin for multiple projects using the app Run CLI action for Jira on Datacenter instance.

Instructions

For this scenario, use the runFromCsv and addProjectRoleActors actions where: 

• removeProjectRoleActors: Remove users or groups from a project role.

• runFromCsv: Run actions generated from a CSV file.
  

  Ensure that the project role(s) and userId(s) exists on the global level. 

1. Consider the following example shows a project key, TC, that has a role defined as jira-administrators:
   
   
2. Create a csv file(ex: remove.csv) with below parameters:
   
3. Place the projects.csv under the respective folder, that is /var/atlassian/application-data/home/cli-plugin.

4. Navigate to Admin > Manage Apps > Run Actions to execute the following CLI action:
   

   --action run --server http://example.test.stage --password xxxxxxx --user xxxxxxx
   
   --action runFromCsv --file "remove.csv" --common "--action removeProjectRoleActors"
   

   

5. Click on Run and below is the required output:
   

   Run: --action runFromCsv --file "remove.csv" --common "--action removeProjectRoleActors"
   
   Run: --project "JIRA" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --category "standard" --action removeProjectRoleActors
   'jira-administrators' role updated for project JIRA
   
   Run: --project "QA" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --category "standard" --action removeProjectRoleActors
   'jira-administrators' role updated for project QA
   
   Run: --project "BUMP" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action removeProjectRoleActors
   'jira-administrators' role updated for project BUMP
   
   Run: --project "TC" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action removeProjectRoleActors
   'jira-administrators' role updated for project TC
   
   Run: --project "ZJCLI" --role "jira-administrators" --userId "Amulya" --action removeProjectRoleActors
   'jira-administrators' role updated for project ZJCLI
   
   Run completed successfully. 5 actions were successful from file: /var/atlassian/application-data/home/cli-plugin/remove.csv
   
   Run completed successfully. 1 actions were successful

   
   
   

6. The result of the above action is similar to the following screenshot: