Import form swiftkanban

Question

Hi,

does anyone has experience with import from swiftkanban ? The exported format contains kind of richttext/HTML tag ans jira doesnt parse that. it takes the content as a full text which makes the text kind of unreadable.

So if we find a way for jira to parse it correct, then we have also the text color, font sizes etc... would be nice.

regards,

Kurt

Kurt Callebaut_njs1wb · Answer

Ok, thx.

Actually the columns are defined well, its the content of one column. It contains a description, like jira editor it contains fontsize, bold, spaces and other formats. So when the editor supports it, why doesn't the import support it ? They probably store it in the same way.

greetz,

Kurt

Scott Theus · Answer

Unfortunately, I don't think the Jira import tool is that "smart;" it is limited to matching the columns in the .csv to the fields in Jira. If you are having trouble getting the fields to populate in Jira you probably need to edit the .csv in Excel to remove the tags before you import.

I'll check with other Community Leaders to see if they have any other suggestions.

Kurt Callebaut_njs1wb · Answer

hi, thx for the reply. As you mention we are migrating and have exported from swiftkanban to a csv file. This can be imported into jira, but it contains tags and jira is not parsings the tags, So the text becomes pretty unreadable. Is there a way to keep the format like font, size, linebreaks, etc... while issues are imported in-to jira? format looks like this ::

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/31909851

or this

Bij voorgemonteerde lades LBX (binnenlade) moeten BIDI en onze klanten een meenemerset kunnen bestellen.

greetz, Kurt