Bulk User Management for the Jira app, gives the ability to automatically and efficiently manage users in JIRA and automatically deactivate inactive users to save licensed user count. Here we will go through a guide to configure Bulk User management with Jira. By the end of the guide, You can bulk Activate, Bulk Delete and, Automatically Identify inactive users based on their last login time and deactivate users on a regular basis.
Pre-requisites
To configure Bulk User Management for Jira, you need the following items:
Jira should be installed and configured.
Admin credentials are set up in Jira.
Valid Jira Server or Data center Licence.
Download And Installation
Log into your Jira instance as an admin.
Navigate to the settings menu and Click Manage Apps.
Click Find new apps or find new add-ons from the left-hand side of the page.
Locate Bulk User Management for JIRA via search.
Click Try free to begin a new trial or buy now to purchase a license for Bulk User Management for Jira.
Enter your information and click Generate license when redirected to MyAtlassian.
Click Apply license.
Step 1: Setup Users Auto Deactivation
Navigate to the User Management Tab.
In the MINIORANGE USER MANAGEMENT section, Click on the Deactivate Users section.
If you want to deactivate a user who has not logged in for X number of days then you can enable the Auto Deactivate Users option and set Days accordingly. By default, it automatically Deactivates a user if login is not done for 30 days.
If you want to deactivate a never logged-in user then enable the Deactivate Never Logged-In Users.
If you do not want to Auto-deactivate groups, then check the Exclude group for Auto Deactivation option. After enabling this option, you will get a dropdown to select the groups.
Step 2: Setup Bulk User Management
In the MINIORANGE USER MANAGEMENT section, Click on the Bulk User Management section.
You can search or filter the active, inactive or all the users based on their groups.
Select the Users for bulk operation using the checkbox associated with it.
You can apply operations like activate, deactivate or delete on the users in a bulk using Action on User dropdown.
Also, you can add or remove the users from the groups in a bulk using Action on group dropdown. After selecting the required options from the dropdown, click on Apply button.
You can also perform action on user & action on groups at a time.
Step 3: Import Export Users
In the MINIORANGE USER MANAGEMENT section, Click on the Import Export Users section.
To import the users, you can need upload .CSV file. You will find the format in by clicking on the download link as highlited in the below image.
In the export users section you can export the users in .CSV file format by selecting Export users in CSV option from the given dropdown.
From the given options select the user details which you want to export.
