Is there a way to en mass convert subtask to issues

John Geasa

I need to convert a bunch of subtask to issues -- do not want to do this one by on.

Logan G Hawkes

Sadly, there's no way to do it automagically using the Jira UI, the Jira Scripting Suite, SOAP, or REST. The only way to move subtasks to issues is one-at-a-time via the GUI. That said, there's a way to make the process less painful. You can use Selenium and HTMLUnit to drive the browser through the steps necessary to move the issues. Here's a big chunk of code to get you started.

import org.junit.Test
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.BrowserVersion
import org.openqa.selenium.By
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

class migrateme {
    public static FirefoxDriver Driver

    public static void main(String [] args){

        Driver = new FirefoxDriver()

        //Driver = new InternetExplorerDriver()
        Driver.get("http://<SERVERNAME>/browse/<PROJECTKEY>")
        Driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(120,TimeUnit.SECONDS)

        Driver.findElement(By.name("os_username")).sendKeys("<USERNAME>")
        Driver.findElement(By.name("os_password")).sendKeys("<PASSWORD>")
        Driver.findElement(By.name("login")).click()


        File list = new File(args[0])
        File errors = new File("errors.txt")
        list.eachLine {
            println it
            def tcName = it.tokenize(",")[1]
            if (it.startsWith("id")) return
            println tcName

            try{
                Driver.get("http://<SERVERNAME>/browse/$tcName")

                def UserStory = Driver.findElement(By.id("parent_issue_summary")).getAttribute("href")
                UserStory = UserStory.tokenize("/")[-1]

                Driver.findElement(By.id("opsbar-operations_more")).click()
                Driver.findElement(By.id("subtask-to-issue")).click()

                Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//option[@value='11']")).click()

                Driver.findElement(By.id("next_submit")).click()
                sleep((4000))
                Driver.findElement(By.id("next_submit")).click()
                sleep(2000)
                Driver.findElement(By.id("finish_submit")).click()
                Driver.findElement(By.id("opsbar-operations_more")).click()
                Driver.findElement(By.id("link-issue")).click()
                Driver.findElement(By.xpath("//option[@value='is a test for']")).click()
                Driver.findElement(By.id("linkKey-textarea")).sendKeys(UserStory)
                Driver.findElement(By.id("issue-link-submit")).click()
                sleep(3000)
            }
            catch (Exception ex){

                println "ERROR: $tcName was not migrated $ex.message"
                errors.append(tcName)
            }
        }
  }  }