Importing data from Mingle

[Salman Khan]

Hi, Has anyone done a data import from Mingle?

I don't see an existing entry for Mingle Import into Jira. 

[Daniel Ebers]

Hi @Salman Khan

to be honest, I feat the probability of meeting Mingle to Jira migrated user to find here it a bit low - but you should never say never.

Best to proceed like Jack said is from my opinion to extract/export data from Mingle (if the solution provides that) and to learn, re-test, try do doing the import into Jira.

From an experience with other source system you would need a few tries until the result fits what your team needs to see.

Please refer to the details on:

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

The data that Jira expects (the structure of the CSV file) is always the same, no matter from which solution you are coming from. However, there are a few specialities that are described more in detail in the documentation and you would need to check if Mingle exports everything in a manner that can be imported right away into Jira using CSV. If not, some kind of adaption (mostly search & replace in the CSV file) would be a needed task which comes on top.

Regards,
Daniel

[Jack Brickey]

You would need to export data from mingle into a CSV file that could then be massaged and used to import into Jira. 

[Salman Khan]

Thank you Jack.

Have you actually done a mingle migration? if so, any helpful guidance would be appreciated. 

[David Lewis]

Hi @Salman Khan 

Did you ever end up importing Mingle data into Jira? I have some exported .CSV files from Mingle and am considering trying to import them. Looking to hear about your experience if you tried it.

Thanks,

David

[Salman Khan]

Hi David,

In the end I didn't have to, I passed the above info to the team from where the request came from. I would have loved to find out but that team doesn't exist anymore!

Kind Regards,

Salman.

[David Lewis]

Hi Salman,

Thank you for the response, I sincerely appreciate it!

I have looked through the files that I have, and do believe that I can do it. Fortunately, it is for a project with only a few users and less than 250 stories in total, so I do not think that it will be too difficult.

For what it's worth, I will report my findings once complete.

Thanks again!

David