How to clone a project which has issues assigned to either inactive or deleted users

This article explains how to clone a project, that has issues assigned to inactive or deleted users, using Jira Command Line Interface (CLI) app in Jira.

Instructions

Use the cloneProject action with parameter --options continueWithDefault to clone a project that has issues assigned to inactive users. This will ensure that the issue is cloned successfully and will replace the assigned inactive user to Unassigned after cloning. As such, it ignores assignee errors you see while cloning the projects.
   

1. Before cloning the project, here is how the issue looks like:
   

2. Now, run the CLI action as follows:
   
   This cloneProject action will create a new project as a clone of a base project and parameters specified will override the setting copied from the base project. 

   --action cloneProject --project "PROJTEST1" --toProject "CPROJ" --cloneIssues --copyAttachments --copySubtasks --copyComments --copyVersions --copyComponents --copyLinks --copyEstimates --copySubtaskEstimates --options continueWithDefault 

   
   CLI action output details:

   Project 'CPROJ' created with key CPROJ and id 10057.
   Version '2.0' with id 10015 added to project CPROJ after version 2.0.
   1 versions copied from PROJTEST1 to project CPROJ.
   Component 'comp1' with id 10240 added to project CPROJ. 
   1 components copied from PROJTEST1 to project CPROJ.
   Issue PROJTEST1-1 cloned to CPROJ-1. 
   Using default for assignee field to avoid field error: assignee: User 'removed3' cannot be assigned issues.
   2 comments copied to CPROJ-2. 
   Issue PROJTEST1-7 cloned to CPROJ-2. 2 comments copied. 
   Using default for assignee field to avoid field error: assignee: User 'removed3' cannot be assigned issues.
   1 comments copied to CPROJ-3. 
   Issue PROJTEST1-10 cloned to CPROJ-3. 3 comments copied. 
   0 links copied.
   3 issues cloned to project CPROJ. 3 comments copied. 
   Successfully completed clone of project PROJTEST1 to project CPROJ.

   Once the project is cloned, the Assignee will be set to Unassigned in all the issues where the user is inactive or not available, as seen below from one of the issue.