Is it possible to import only specific workflows/statuses/transitions/etc from one JIRA instance to another?

[Justin Corcoran]

I have 2 instances of JIRA: one that's our production instance and is used by people throughout our company, and one that is a "sandbox" instance and is used by a select group of people to try out new workflows/screens, etc before rolling them out.

Is it possible to take a backup of the sandbox, and then import only specific pieces of that backup into the prod environment? There will be workflows that we want to introduce into the prod account, and workflows that are still being tested/tweaked. From what i've seen, it looks like all or nothing, but maybe I'm missing something?

[Maya S Chase · Accepted solution]

Hi Justin,

I don't know of any way to do it from the backup, per se. You can, however, do individual workflows. http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Workflow#ConfiguringWorkflow-Copyingaworkflowbetweensystems

Unfortunately, that doesn't get you any other custom stuff you've put in, just the workflow.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yup, and it can be a bit of a pain - if you refer to fields or screens or other ID based stuff, you have to have them the same in both source and target jira. e.g. if source Jira workflow says "use screen 42 on this transition", then screen 42 must exist in the target jira.

Some search and replace in the xml can help there, but it's still a general pain in the neck.

[Justin Corcoran]

wow, that does look ugly. good to know there's an option, but it looks like it might just be easier to re-create in the new instance. thanks for the info.