How can I programmatically create a new jira user, but set it to inactive by default?

[Kristīne Graudiņa]

Hi.

In one of my projects the client would like the ability to, when creating a new Jira user, to set them as inactive by default, and I'd like to know if that is possible and how.

Checking UserService and ApplicationUser, I can see that I can check if a user is active, but not actually manipulate the user's activity status.

Please advise, thank you!

[Jim Knepley - ReleaseTEAM]

If you're creating a new user via the API, you can set them as active, or not, when the record is created.

If you're talking about disabling users that are created via any mechanism (like a directory sync), what might be easiest is to create the user as usual, but don't give them application access by default.

[Kristīne Graudiņa]

It's the latter. Client has their internal employee system, where, when a new employee is added, they want the synchronizer plugin to automatically create a new Jira user. Which is currently implemented and works.

They just want to make it now that, when that new user is created, it is set to inactive.

User creation is handled through a service class that makes use of UserManager and UserService,

I can see that you can use method withNoApplicationAccess() to deny application access on user creation, but that wouldn't necessarily make the user inactive, right?

I suppose in that case implementing an update user API call is the most straightforward way?

I was hoping for something roundabout.

[Sergei Troshin]

Hi @Kristīne Graudiņa

You can refer to Adaptavist Libaray and their complete code examples: Deactivate Users.
I will try to provide you with some examples of creating users with inactive status by default later.

[Sergei Troshin]

Here some extended code by Adaptavist:

final Long directoryId = 1

Users.create('bob', 'bob@mail.com', 'Mr Bob') {
    setDirectoryId(directoryId)
    setPassword('secret')
    withNoApplicationAccess()
}.deactivate()