Want to manually assign a closed date to a past issue that was brought into Jira

[Stephan Lewis]

Bringing in a set of tasks from another system into Jira. I can create the tasks, but I would like to have them show a start date and end date that reflects how they were orginally completed.

If I manually create them I end up getting todays start date and when I close them I also get today as the close date. I want to overide these default dates to reflect what actually occured. 

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Stephan

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

@Stephan Lewis 

Welcome to the community.

If you create the issues using the External System Import (available to Jira Admins) using a CSV file as the import data, then you can include the Created date and Resolved date as part of the import data.

If the issues already exist, then you can use the same import functionality to modify data on existing issues.

If you've never used the CSV import before, here is a reference document on the topic:

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/import-data-from-a-csv-file/

[Stephan Lewis]

Thank you Trudy!

It works great - does exactly what I wanted it to do.

Still working through a few issues (multi-line descriptions in my CSV file are being imported as a single concatenated description).

This is a lifesaver.