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tmaj
tmaj

Reputation: 35057

JIRA: Migrating custom field content manually

In Migrating custom field content manually JIRA docs state:

Using a bulk edit operation, populate the new field with the value of the old field for all the issues found. (...)

How do I populate the new field with the value of the old field? I know how to set a value of a field to a value, but after looking at it for a while I still don't know how to 'copy the values'.

Is this possible to copy values between fields using the bulk copy functionality?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 855

Answers (1)

mdoar
mdoar

Reputation: 6881

You have a custom field of type X and want it to be type Y. Or some such case.

Rename the old field to "deprecated" Create the new field For each value in the old field run a query to select just the issues with that value: Run a bulk update on those issues to set the value in the new field. Delete the old field

This is pretty tedious I know. The other approach is to use the REST API to retrieve each issue one at a time, decide what the value in the new field should be, update the issue. This approach can change 2 or 3 issues/second usually and is good if you have thousands of issues to change.

Upvotes: 0

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