How to Disable User Onboarding (Welcome Page) in Jira

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Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.

Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Purpose

This article indicates how to disable the user onboarding/welcome page in Jira applications, which is prevented to users who log into Jira for the very first time:

Environment

Jira Server/Data Center on any version from 7.0.0.

Steps

Through the user interface

  1. As a JIRA administrator, navigate to <JIRA-URL>/secure/SiteDarkFeatures!default.jspa
  2. Add the following dark feature flag: jira.onboarding.feature.disabled

  3. To re-enable onboarding, click the Disable link next to the dark feature on the same dark feature management screen.


As a Java property

As per Setting properties and options on startup add the property below:

-Datlassian.darkfeature.jira.onboarding.feature.disabled=true


Last modified on Dec 4, 2024

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