Jira Throws an Unable to Compile Soy Templates Exception When Creating a Service Management Project

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Problem

When attempting to create a Service Management Project or add ServiceDesk to an existing project, a 500 error gets thrown on the page. The following stacktrace is seen under the request assistance dropdown:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Technical details Log's referral number: a53246fc-ac07-4bf5-8de3-XXXXXXXXXXXX Cause Referer URL: https://jira.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/project-config/TEST com.atlassian.soy.renderer.SoyException: Unable to compile Soy templates at: com.atlassian.servicedesk:project-admin-soy com.atlassian.soy.renderer.SoyException: Unable to compile Soy templates at: com.atlassian.servicedesk:project-admin-soy at com.atlassian.soy.impl.DefaultSoyManager.render(DefaultSoyManager.java:124) at com.atlassian.soy.impl.DefaultSoyTemplateRenderer.render(DefaultSoyTemplateRenderer.java:52) at com.atlassian.soy.impl.DefaultSoyTemplateRenderer.render(DefaultSoyTemplateRenderer.java:45) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1372.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)

Cause

The Service Management module project-admin-soy has been disabled and must be reenabled.

Resolution

  1. Navigate to ⚙ > Manage Apps > Manage Apps

  2. Select the Jira Service Management plugin

  3. Expand the modules enabled section

  4. Enable the module: project-admin-soy

Updated on April 8, 2025

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