Is there a way to import/upload additional issues into an existing project?

[Tony Shoesmith]

Hi

I am evaluating a trial version of Jira On Demand, and need advice on imports.

Is there a way to import/upload additional issues (stories, tasks, etc) into an existing project, without completely overwriting the instance. Overwriting the instance will destroy information relating to other projects, and also remove customised workflows. Perhaps there is a plug-in available from Atlassian or some other manufacturer that does this.

My project will be wanting to upload additional issues on a weekly basis, and it won't be practical to create them all manually in the Jira User Interface.

Kind regards

Tony Shoesmith

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The standard built-in importers do allow this, but I'm not sure tha Jira OnDemand exposes the importers to end users, I think it might be restricted to administrators. So you'd need to raise a support call for each import. Check with Atlassian to see if they'd do this.

You might be better off writing something external to process your exports though - a script or REST/SOAP based program to push the issues in. (Look up the Jira CLI if that sounds appealing, it makes scripts more easy- https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/JCLI )

[Bob Swift]

Further to Nic's answer - JCLI supports similar import capabilities without requiring system admin authority:

JIRA Command Line Interface has an example of how to do this - see https://bitbucket.org/bob_swift/jira-cli/src/4b73be518de5/src/itest/resources/import.csv

[Tony Shoesmith]

Thanks for the information. Does this actually apply to atlassian's "ondemand" service or does it only work with a locally hosted implementation?