Retaining the same project key and migrating a JIRA project to next gen project

[Sai Pravesh]

Hi All,

My team follows a naming convention in our documentation and bitbucket branch names that include the the JIRA project key to have a reference  to the project. 

When creating a new next gen project, we can't have the same PROJECT KEY, so can you please suggest what can be done?

Also I did read few other posts and have looks like there is no straightforward way to bulk migrate issues, please let me know if there is a way, any question or JIRA ticket that I can follow?

[Sreenivasaraju P · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sai Pravesh ,

You can refer the steps for migrating the project type. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/convert-project-to-a-different-template-or-type-966673096.html

Later you can delete or change project old project and update the new project Key.

[Sai Pravesh]

Thanks a lot @Sreenivasaraju P