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Downgrading from JIRA Enterprise to JIRA Standard

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Introduction

Occasionally people start out evaluating JIRA Enterprise, and then decide that they will not need the extra features, and switch to JIRA Standard.

While JIRA can automatically upgrade data from Standard to Enterprise by adding the additional tables, it cannot automatically do the opposite. Downgrading data from Enterprise to Standard requires some manual intervention, described in this document.

Step 1: Ensure no Enterprise or Professional features are used

Log into JIRA as a user with permission jira-administrator. In the'Aadministration' section, check that for each project:

  • Issue Security Scheme is set to None.
  • Field Configuration Scheme is set to System Default Field Configuration
  • Issue Type Screen Scheme is set to Default Issue Type Screen Scheme.
  • Workflow Scheme is set to None
  • Project Category is set to None

Also ensure that in the permission schemes and notification schemes, only 'groups' or 'project roles' are specified (i.e., no 'Current Reporter', 'Single User', 'Project Lead' or 'Current Assignee').

Also verify that:

  • no shared filters exist.
  • no dashboard has more than one page.

Create an XML backup

In the 'Administration' section, click Backup Data to XML and create an uncompressed XML backup.

Delete license key

Open the saved XML dump, locate the section containing OSPropertyString tags, and specifically the lines recording the license key, for example:

<OSPropertyString id="10012"
  value="QmSSppmNrnRemqoaaaXONrrNRMQONpqqqTsUwTXvuuSVoreeeemsqostsnmsunUUnmsqostsnmsqnUU9kabmbkaakq"/>
<OSPropertyString id="10013"
  value="NNORRIhehJHuopbJHahmlCIOpNUquvoaWtvMnSqAcaussss2KqaVqLs<18T3yRGL9AaQ12KlGXNCsNU9K7uYRPqKB<K"/>

Replace the values within the double quotes with:

<OSPropertyString id="10012"
value="rRNSvoPoPNpoMqMoroWXQpnNnqOoqqOrnuUSwXWSXswvUXPvVSUVWuoSwTvUtxnmvUUnmsvoonsmmmmmUUnmsvoonsmmmmmUUGiXZbeliaboWbumf
obaWifZbkpb"/>
<OSPropertyString id="10013"
value="ROpOODCPufuglwtAFMICsMHhaoPumlNsONvGKBOMrvcOSEimj2L02TK9aBweqbvDsuPUemta2KlQPAax9Yk8&lt;zoI9PGrf6"/>

(Make sure the original id attributes remain the same - "10012" and "10013" are just examples)

Import and reenter license key

Now shut down the JIRA Enterprise, and start up a JIRA Standard instance. Import the XML saved in the last step.

In the footer, JIRA will claim that it has an expired license. Log in as an administrator and enter your Standard license key.