Migrate data of one custom field to other using bulk change

[Kajal Mittal]

I have a company managed project. I have two custom field one of paragraph type other of richtext. I want to move date of one custom field to other using bulk change. How to achieve it , I have got all issues which have custom field1 using JQL but how to move its data to custom field2.

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Kajal Mittal ,

Bulk change does not let you copy data from another field. But you can do this with automation. As it happens, I just answered a similar question in this thread recently.

Hope this helps!

[Hannes Obweger - JXL for Jira]

Hi @Kajal Mittal

just to add to Walter's answer: If you're open to solutions from the Atlassian Marketplace, this would be easy to do using the app that my team and I are working on, JXL for Jira.

JXL is a full-fledged spreadsheet/table view for your issues that allows viewing, inline-editing, sorting, and filtering by all your issue fields, much like you’d do in e.g. Excel or Google Sheets. It also allows bulk editing via copy/paste - within one field, but also between different fields. This is how this looks in action:

This works for any number of issues in one action - so you should be done with your work in no time. (I should add that JXL can do much more than the above: From support for (configurable) issue hierarchies, to issue grouping by any issue field(s), sum-ups, or conditional formatting.)

Any questions just let me know,

Best,

Hannes