Cleanup custom issuetypes

Erik Mathijs

As preparation of my migration from server to cloud, i want cleanup some issuetypes and some issue statusses.

Because i don't want to loose information about the issue's, i want to keep thisinformation in the issues by creating a custom fields for holding the status and name of my issueType.

So my plan is to create custom fields

-  old_issue_type and populate it with the name of the issuetype. 

- old_issue_status and populatie it with the status of the issuetype

 

After this operation, i will move the issue's of issueType A to a general issuetype, with a screen with all fields.

If i can arrange this, i can cleanup a lot of obsolete issueTypes and obsolete statusses.

For example

Issuetype = A / Status = X

Custom field 

- old_issue_type must be populated with value A.

- old_issue_status must be populated with value X

 

Question

Question is how do i save the value of issueType name and status in the new created custom fields.

 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You will need to manually bulk edit each status/issue-type combination.

If it were me, I think I'd write a script to do it (obviously, you'll need a scripting app to do it, or writing something that can do it over REST)