How to remove Side Bar Introduction
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Purpose
By default, users will get an "introduction pop ups" to the new Project Centric Navigation side panel. This article shows how to disable these pop ups
Solution
Always back up your data before performing any modifications to the database. If possible, test any alter, insert, update, or delete SQL commands on a staging server first.
Disable to sidebar-chaperone module of JIRA Projects Plugin. This cannot be done via the UI so it must be done via database
- Stop JIRA
Run the following query against your database
insert into pluginstate values ('com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:sidebar-chaperone','false');This query is written for PostgreSQL. You might have to slightly modify the query to work with your database
- Restart JIRA