Chaning Project Type

[Johan Stroman]

Noob mistake - started a Project with the incorrect Type (i.e. Software vs Design) and begin populating issues/tasks...  Is there a quick way to change the Type after creating a Project or do I delete and start again?

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

Hi @Johan Stroman

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Short answer is no, once the project is created you cannot change the project type. You would have to create a new project and you can then move your existing issues over to it. Please note that you cannot reuse the project name or key until the existing project has been completely deleted (moved to trash and then from there permanently delete it). 

[Johan Stroman]

Noted. Thank you for clarifying! Won't do that again

[Einstein Briceño]

Hi @Mikael Sandberg 

On the same line as the previous question. I have a project configured with the "Scrum" template (for software development) and of the type "Team Managed", i can change it to the type "Company Managed"?

The need to make the change is because in the project of the type "Team Managed", in the field configuration for the types of issues (Story, Bug or Task), it does not allow me to show the "Epic link" field in the layout and also show it in the filters. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

This should probably be its own question with a reference to this one, but the answer is no, you cannot convert a team-managed project to be a company-managed. What you can do is move the issues in your team-managed project to a new company-managed one.

[Christian Lämmerer]

Hi, 

is there a description how to move alle issues (epics, tasks, stories, bugs and sub-tasks) from one project to another?

Thank you, this would highly appreciated. 

BR,

Christian 

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Christian Lämmerer Yes, you can use the bulk move to do that, see this KB for more information.

[Christian Lämmerer]

Hi @Mikael Sandberg , thank you for your help!