Defining a new Jira project - question about the key

Question

Is it possible to create a new project and set the number of the first issue to a number other than 1?

That is, if the project key is FOO, I want the first issue to be FOO-10000 instead of FOO-1.

The reason is that later I will perform an issue import from another server, for issues FOO-1 up to FOO-9500.

Thanks

unknown · Accepted Answer

Hi @Amir Katz (Outseer)

You can follow this article to change the starting number, although I'm not sure if it can impact your future desire to import other issues.

I'd recommend testing it on a test server first.

Kind regards
Jorden

Amir Katz (Outseer) · Accepted Answer

Here is an update of what I did (albeit bit kludgy):

* Exported a single issue from the existing project to a CSV file, CSV-1. Issue key is FOO-9500.
* Exported first 500 issues - FOO-1 to FOO-500 to file CSV-2.
* Created a new project on target server which is identical to the existing project.
* Used system import via CSV to import CSV-1, with mapping of the issue key enabled.* Note that only Jira admins/sub-admins can use system export

* New project now has a single issue, FOO-9500.
* Imported issues from CSV-2, FOO-1 to FOO-500.
* New project now has 501 issues: FOO-1, FOO-2,...FOO-500 and FOO-9500.
* New issues created afterwards will start from FOO-9501 and not from FOO-501.
* Apparently Jira uses the highest issue number and does not try to fill gaps. This is good.
* Mission accomplished!