move issue from one project to another using automation

Question

using jira cloud I would like to move all items to another project when a specific date field of the source item is greater than this date plus 5 years.

Source and destination are company-managed

I used Scheduled trigger with a condition on the specifuc fiels but I'm note able to find the Move action on the Then condition.

Can you help me on writing this automation

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Daniel Da Fonseca

@Jeroen Poismans is right if you want to use automation, then you cold clone work items to another project and then delete the work items in the original project

But @Dang Quang is also right and this is more likely a beter solution as you don't make duplicate issues first.

I will always opt to find the all the related issues and then do a bulk action to move them to the other project.

Jeroen Poismans · Answer

Hi,

The short answer here is: There is no Move action in automation and that makes sense because other project, issue types ... might require other mandatory fields while some of the source's fields might simply not exist on the target project and issue type.

Only way here would be to Create a work Item or Clone the work item to the correct project and issue type and in that action map the required fields form the original item + set any additional fields required by the target.

After that you could Resolve / Delete the original item.

Hope this helps!

Dang Quang_ymujlx · Answer

Hi @Daniel Da Fonseca ,

To do the bulk move, I think you can have a try in this API if you want to have it in the automation and do on a schedule basis: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Bulk-Ops-APIs-Beta-articles/Bulk-Edit-and-Bulk-Move-APIs-are-here/ba-p/2728954

Otherwise, if this is one-off action, did you try with the Bulk Edit in UI: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwarecloud/editing-multiple-issues-at-the-same-time-1442910568.html