How to import issues from Excell sheet into JIRA?

Question

We have some existing issues imported into Excel from another CM tool.

We are going to use JIRA and we have a customized Issue type. How can we import all teh issues in Excel into Jira?

Steven F Behnke · Answer

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Hapantantrig Perera · Answer

Thanks Bhushan. It is a very helpful link!! Your help is much appreciated!!

Bhushan Nagaraj4 · Answer

You should find everything you need in the documentation available at

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Importing+Data+from+CSV