How to Bulk Add more than 100 users to a Group

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*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Symptom

In a system where JIRA has thousands of users, it could be tedious to only add 100 users at a time to a group.

Resolution

Use your web browser's Development Tools

Here's example on how to do this with Chrome's developer tools:

  • As shown, the current limitation is to list 100 users at a time

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  • Right-click the the dropbox and select Inspect Element

    • The developer tools should pop-up

    • Remember to expand the selected class to see the underlying options

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  • Modify the value to something a larger value. In this case, it's been changed to 2000.

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  • Click Filter and notice that your the listing is now showing more than 100 users.

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Updated on April 8, 2025

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