How to modify the Jira Service Management announcement banner outside the user interface
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Summary
This article describes how to modify the Jira Service Management announcement banner either through the database or through a private REST endpoint.
Environment
Jira 8.x
Solution
Find the list of announcement banner in the service management portal from the database along with the portal ID and project name
Postgres
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select tbl.PropertyID as PropertyTextID, VP."NAME" as Portal_Name,tbl.Portal_Id as Portal_ID,pt.propertyvalue as Banner
from (select id as PropertyID,split_part(property_key,'_',2) as Portal_Id from propertyentry where property_key like '%com.atlassian.servicedesk.portal.announcement%')Tbl
join propertytext pt on pt.ID = tbl.PropertyID
join "AO_54307E_VIEWPORT" VP on VP."ID" = tbl.Portal_Id::int;⚠️ Query tested on PostgreSQL only.
Sample output:
propertytextid | portal_name | portal_id | banner |
|---|---|---|---|
12995 | SITM | 2 | {"header":"Second one","message":"Second addtion"} |
12983 | ITSM | 1 | {"header":"tester","message":"Remove the message"} |
Option 1 - Modify it via REST endpoint
To modify the announcement banner corresponding to the portal of interest, try the below rest endpoint. Modify the value for "header" and "message" with the new title and message.
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curl -D- -u user:pass --data '{"header":"tester","message":"Remove this message"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://localhost:8080/rest/servicedesk/1/servicedesk-data/announcement/portal/<portalID from above>Option 2 - Modify it via database query
Alternatively, update the database based on the propertytext table ID from the above query such as below.
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update propertytext set propertyvalue = '{"header":"Title","message":"I am done"}' where ID = <propertytext ID from the above query>Was this helpful?