Basis the new announcement by Atlassian on site import - will JCMA support the import of dashboards

[abhishek_sharma03]

Basis the new announcement by Atlassian on site import - will JCMA support the import of dashboards

Announcement URL - https://support.atlassian.com/migration/docs/use-jira-site-import-to-migrate-from-server-to-cloud/

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @abhishek_sharma03,

For a complete and up to date list of what is being migrated with the migration assistant, see this support article. 

To stay in the loop of ongoing development in terms of migration tooling, you can always have a look at Atlassian's public cloud roadmap. App migration is currently in the works and the app assessment tool inside the JCMA should point you towards more information (when it becomes available).

Hope this helps! 

[abhishek_sharma03]

Hi @Walter Buggenhout , Thanks for your response. Yes we are keeping a tab on the developments on this page. However, with the current limitations with JCMA I don't find this new announcement very helpful. Especially, migrating dashboards and boards that are shared in multiple projects to cloud feature is still not supported in JCMA.

[Walter Buggenhout]

That is correct. And I don't expect that to happen very soon. Dashboards can contain so many gadgets and configurations that are entirely different in Cloud or don't exist at all, for example.

In all migrations I've been involved in so far, there are a number of post migration steps that must be performed manually or with help from the migration support team.

It is important to document these out in advance and make sure that the people you need help from during a production migration are informed ahead of time.

[abhishek_sharma03]

Creating these dashboards from scratch won't please the clients. We have a 500 user instance which we are migrating consisting of 500 dashboards. How do we recreate them manually in the production window ?? 

[Walter Buggenhout]

That is indeed not something that sounds like a walk in the park. And I do understand your concerns there.

At the same time, 500 dashboards in a 500 user instance sounds like a big pile of dashboards. It seems very unlikely that they are all going to be equally important and probably a good number of those may even be old or obsolete. There might be an opportunity here to do a major cleanup here before your migration. That will only help you start fresh in your new environment. And maybe certain dashboards that are less important can be set up later on, after the production window.

But again, I understand that you are looking at a pile of work there and that is not easy. I can only recommend you to reach out to migration support, create a migration ticket and if there are ways the support team can help you find clever ways around things, they will certainly assist you where they can.

[abhishek_sharma03]

Are there any future plans to support Insight migration to cloud using JCMA as well ?