Archive projects

Question

Hi everyone, I'm planning a platform upgrade from Jira Software 7.0.x to 8.x and I would like to archive some old projects. These projects have a lot of custom functionalities added from various free/paid plugins. Some free plugins are incompatible with the upgrade so they will be replaced. My question is if there is a way of keeping in the new Jira Instance the old projects that I want to archive, without taking the time to apply all the new changes to them (conditions/postfunctions/scripts). I just want these projects "frozen" to be able to search the issues. Thank you, Teo

Teodor Clipa · Answer

Thank you @Michael Andolfatto

This solution still means that I will need to replace the CFs provided by the plugins incompatible with the upgrade with new ones, and change the projects list context?

I want all the information from the issues of the archived projects to be visible without the need to manually make changes to the custom fields context. Thank you, Teo

Michael Andolfatto_a62ntx · Answer

Hi @Teodor Clipa ,

The best solution would be to add an "Online Archived" or "Read-Only" Permission Scheme to your instance and associate it with the projects you would like to be affected. You can leave the "Browse Projects" permission active to desired users/groups/roles, but remove permissions for any other functionality.