Copy Jira Board Into New Company Name Space

Question

We have been working with an outside software developer for the last year and are now ready to bring development in house. We have done a lot of work setting up tickets in the contractors Jira space, but would like to do a bulk copy over to our own space. Assuming we have the cooperation of the contractor's Jira administrator, is this possible?

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

You cannot flip a switch to change a project from Team Managed to Company Managed or vice versa. You have to create a new project and move the issues. Refer to this document for more details.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/migrate-between-team-managed-and-company-managed-projects/

Yes, I did mean to say you cannot connect child issues to Epics during import to a Team Managed project.

MAKMCDO · Answer

"Another limitation with CSV import specifically for Team Managed projects is you can connect child issues to Epics as part of the import process. That would have to be done manually after the import completes."

Did you mean to say "can NOT?

MAKMCDO · Answer

So it sounds like my options are pretty limited.  Can we change the source board to "company managed" at this time or does that only happen at creation?