Find out when a project was created

[Yatish Madhav]

Hi

I have watched and upvoted this https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-20553 but I see it is very old and strangely with no activity. Please advise if anyone knows how to find the Jira project create date and possible update date too?

Thank you in advance

Yatish

[Ste Wright · Accepted solution]

Hi @Yatish Madhav 

It depends what you want to do with the information?

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You can find Project Created Date, and Updates, in the Audit Log.

1. Go to Settings > System
2. Select Audit Log from the left-hand menu

The Audit Log contains information up to 6 months old - depending on your setting for it. The retention period could be 1, 3, or 6 months, check this from the Audit Log page:

1. Actions > Audit Log Settings

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Otherwise, it might be possible to locate via the REST API

Ste

[Yatish Madhav]

Hi @Ste Wright  - thanks for the quick reply, mate!

I am using it as part of project clean ups. I.e i see projects with no issues or few old issues and want to see when a project was created so I can find any pattern.

Ah, I didnt think of the audit log - but I think becuase I knew it was a 6 month 'cap'. We have some projects that are over 2 / 3 / more years and what to mention that so that we can confirm deletion with the project leads.

I wil see the REST API endpoints but from what I recall, I dont think that the date returns. Will have a look.

Would be great to see it on the project listing page though as it could be insightful (for me for sure, for others I hope :) )

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Jira does not record the project created date (except in the audit log)

Your only option is to look at the creation date of the oldest issue in it, and compare it with the oldest issue creation date in the projects with ids either side of it.

[David Yohler]

Since the create date isn't persisted, we wanted a way to capture that data.  As others have mentioned you can get older data from the audit logs and/or approximating by the oldest issue.
We implemented Automation solution on a go forward basis to store the data as a project property.  Of course you would need to fetch the property later, but it least it will be stored.

Automation details:

When:  Project created  (for All projects)

Send web request:  (your_domain)/rest/api/2/project/{{project.id}}/properties/projCreate

Put headers as needed, then

HTTP method:  PUT

Custom data:   {"CreateDt": "{{now.jiraDate}}"}

That will save it going forward.

[Leo Diaz _ DEISER]

Hello @Yatish Madhav ,

I'm Leo from DEISER (Marketplace partner). 

Projectrak allows you to store the project's creation date. After you install Projectrak, the field Creation date is automatically filled in every time someone creates a project.

Projectrak has more features, discover it on the marketplace

[Ankit Srivastava]

Hi @Yatish Madhav 

Hope you are doing well.

Please refer below link:

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Get-the-created-date-and-last-update-date-of-the-projects/qaq-p/1193770
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-find-project-creation-date-1167828202.html

Hope this will help

Thanks

[Yatish Madhav]

Thanks @Ankit Srivastava  - unfortunately not. I have already seen both of those and they are both for Jira Server and/or Data Center only. I would like this for Jira Cloud.

Thanks though