Importing data into JIRA
JIRA supports importing data directly from many popular issue-tracking systems, such as Bugzilla, GitHub, and Trac. All the importers have a wizard-driven interface, guiding you through a series of steps. These steps are mostly identical with few differences. Generally speaking, there are four steps when importing data into JIRA that are as follows:
- Select your source data. For example, if you are importing from CSV, it will select the CSV file. If you are importing from Bugzilla, it will provide Bugzilla database details.
- Select a destination project where imported issues will go into. This can be an existing project or a new project created on the fly.
- Map old system fields to JIRA fields.
- Map old system field values to ...
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