Converting Jira work item's components from Jira to Compass

[Keith Furnell]

It seems that when Compass components are enabled in Jira, existing work items retain their Jira component (had hoped they might automatically convert to a Compass component of the same name).

Given this, we've explored bulk converting work items' Components field content (painfully, one component at a time), however the available options don't actually seem to support this:

1. Add to existing -> should work, except without #4 it results in duplicates
2. Replace all with -> should work, but is not suitable for work items with multiple components assigned
3. Clear field -> like #2 but worse
4. Find and remove these -> doesn't work, the drop-down list only includes Compass components, not Jira components (possible bug?)

Has anyone else come up with a solution for this? The best we've come up with so far is to search for items that only have a particularly component (not that easy) and then use #2 - i.e. not touch items with multiple components.

[Pavel Shkleinik · Accepted solution]

@Keith Furnell to my knowledge there is no a nice UI achieve this, but there is a script: https://github.com/atlassian-labs/compass-examples/tree/main/snippets/scripts/jira-components-to-compass-components

[Keith Furnell]

Useful to know (and surprisingly that it is not mentioned in https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/switch-between-jira-and-compass-components/)!

When it says "Use this script to migrate your existing project components along with issues the components are used on to Compass", what does the bold part mean (given that a pre-requisite is that the project has been switched to Compass? Just wanting to understand if this script does more than update the components references on issues...

[Keith Furnell]

OK looking at the script I see that it will create new Compass components where there is none matching a Jira component name. That's not the behaviour we're after (we just want to leave such legacy Jira component references alone), but it should be easy enough to adapt the script.