Any way to copy a project with its board (does templates allow this?)

[Calvin]

Every single project we have (company managed) use the same project specifications with the same 5 boards. If they want to change it later they can, but I need to create soooooooooooooo many projects the exact same way and the cloning of the boards part take forever as I have to fix the filters and the shares for all 5 every time.

Is there anyway I can automate this? I can't use another app (except scriptrunner) I can use API calls.

Thanks!

[Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_ · Accepted solution]

Hello @Calvin ,
You can copy config of a project but can't have a copy of board default as when you create a project.

You can actually do something as below:


- As you create a project using a old project or template which would have an category of project specified already.
Trigger: As when Project is created
Condition: Project Category = As above 
Action: Create a filter based on the new project (rest api),
Then create a Board with the filter ID.

But again, I don't see any REST API for config update; but you can read config of other board.

[Piyush Annadate _ACE Pune_]

Try with: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-board/#api-rest-agile-1-0-board-boardid-configuration-get and  then add config to https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/software/rest/api-group-board/#api-rest-agile-1-0-board-post

[Calvin]

Fantastic, thanks friend, never thought you might be able to do it this way. But this might at least make me my 4 filters, and then I just need to attach them to the board. Cheers!

[John Funk]

Hey @Calvin  - In addition to the suggestions already for cloning a project, you can use an add-on like the Revyz Configuration Manager for Jira or Deep Clone. Both are excellent. There is nothing out there that will also clone the board because projects can have multiple boards attached to them and the system would not know which one to copy. 

But copying the same board from the existing project is very easy and then you just need to create and change out the filter used by the board. 

[Tinker Fadoua]

You can create a template project @Calvin , no one should create any issues in it. Any change should be done in that project only, however the project configuration should be shared with every single project you have.

Any configuration changes are easy to be done, any new project you create can use the same configuration. You can have more than one template project based on your needs.

Best,

Fadoua