Changes made in Advanced Roadmaps plan are not reflected in Jira although success message is seen

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Summary

Changes made to Jira issue fields from Advanced Roadmaps plan are not reflected on the Jira issue, although you can see the message "change was successfully saved to Jira" after using the "Review Changes" functionality:

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Environment

Jira Server/Data Center 8.20.0 and any higher version

Diagnosis

While saving the changes, following message is logged in the application log (atlassian-jira.log). Notice, the line that says feature disabled in feature manager

1 2 3 4 5 2024-05-31T06:40:19.914Z | https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-11 url: /rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit; user: XXX | DEBUG | [XXX] | [520x322067x1] | [2mdj5] | [XXX,XXX] | [/rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit] | [c.a.r.j.c.scenario.issue.DefaultScenarioIssueAssigneeAction] | set issue assignee for issue: 799281 2024-05-31T06:40:19.914Z | https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-11 url: /rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit; user: XXX | DEBUG | [XXX] | [520x322067x1] | [2mdj5] | [XXX,XXX] | [/rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit] | [c.a.r.j.c.scenario.issue.DefaultScenarioIssueAssigneeAction] | try to get assigneeId for given resources Optional.absent() 2024-05-31T06:40:19.914Z | https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-11 url: /rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit; user: XXX | DEBUG | [XXX] | [520x322067x1] | [2mdj5] | [XXX,XXX] | [/rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit] | [c.a.r.c.env.features.JiraFeatureTester] | test feature: SIMPLE_PLANS 2024-05-31T06:40:19.914Z | https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-11 url: /rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit; user: XXX | DEBUG | [XXX] | [520x322067x1] | [2mdj5] | [XXX,XXX] | [/rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit] | [c.a.r.c.env.features.JiraFeatureTester] | try to read feature from feature manager 2024-05-31T06:40:19.914Z | https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-11 url: /rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit; user: XXX | DEBUG | [XXX] | [520x322067x1] | [2mdj5] | [XXX,XXX] | [/rest/jpo/1.0/issues/commit] | [c.a.r.c.env.features.JiraFeatureTester] | feature disabled in feature manager

Check the dark features for the site by accessing <BASE_URL> /SiteDarkFeatures!Default.jspa as Jira Admin and verify if com.atlassian.portfolio.simpleplans.disabled is set as shown below.

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Cause

com.atlassian.portfolio.simpleplans.disabled Dark Feature is preventing the changes to be saved to Jira.

Solution

Disable the Dark Feature com.atlassian.portfolio.simpleplans.disabled (by following the instructions in the dark features documentation) and retry saving the changes: the changes should now be reflected in the Jira issue view.

Updated on April 24, 2025

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