Excel CSV - error messages (unable to import)

[Gerry Bolger]

Hi all

I'm getting this message when *trying* to import issues:

You have to define which CSV column maps to Issue Id if you want to import sub-tasks. You have selected Issue Key mapping.

Please note that importer will update existing issues matching the Issue Key from the CSV file.

This is what my file looks like, could someone advise what I am doing wrong - thanks in advance

[Derek Fields (RightStar) · Accepted solution]

You can't specify the Issue Id when creating new issues. The issue id is assigned by Jira. Also, you need to have a Summary value for every issue, including Epics. 

Parent Id is only for sub-tasks. To map a Task to an Epic, you need a column called "Epic Link". Put the name of the "Epic Name" in to the "Epic Link" column for the tasks.

Hope this helps.

[Gerry Bolger]

Derek. Thank you 

I believe I’ve done the mapping of epic ID and epic link as in the screenshot

ill remove the Issue ID 

i do have a summary column. Should that be the first? And is it’s name correct. 

thank you 

[Gerry Bolger]

Derek - I got it to work in the end, so appreciate it, my only issue was dataes didn;t import. I suspect thats a format issue